Word.

Kyle Gann's gone postal over at his blog.

Sad thing is that he's absolutely right when he talks about bias in electronic music circles. One highlight:

"I thought it [Max/MSP] must be some incredibly powerful program, from what I kept hearing about it - it turns out, the technonerds love it because it’s incredibly impotent in most people’s hands, until you’ve learned to stack dozens of pages of complicated designs.

His comparison to serialism falls short, given the lowly status of electronic music on the academic totem pole, but the point is well taken. Such a marginalized genre only shoots itself in the foot by clinging to such obsolete standards.