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Huh? There's a huge amount of theory and writing about electronic music that isn't just technical. See Mark Fell's PhD thesis, for example.

Your comment seems to suggest the other person is ignorant but really it just shows your ignorance of theory and writing about experimental and electronic music. Not all music theory is western classical.

I mean, how do you even consider Stockhausen and Xenakis from your perspective?

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You're misunderstanding what I'm saying. Music theory from other cultures are of course music theory as well. Each composer can (and almost always will) have their own idiosyncratic music theory as well. There is nothing contradictory here.

Also I'm a composer with extensive knowledge of how to make, orchestra, and mix acoustic or electronic music. This thread has an extreme Western bias, just because something is studied in a particular way from Western music theory perspective, it doesn't mean it has to be that way.

Check my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gnulinux#42368137

That comment just seems like an overly disparaging and ignorant take on this so called “western music”, which you claim is somehow anti human. Why would I care what you think about electronic music when you think western music is anti human?

I didn't say Western music is anti-human. Treating it as the only possible form of music is.

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