I was a MA/MST student at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Accoustics.
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I went to a concert a few days ago which exhibited performances and pieces by CCRMA professors / graduate students. I realized a couple of things: 1) I've really come to enjoy experimental music 2) Music has an enormous amount of context to it To elaborate on the second point, at the most recent 222 lecture I attended Fernando played an excerpt from Michael McNabb's "Love in the Asylum" and noted that the spatial movements in the introduction were the same as those used in John Chowning's "Turenas" - I would argue that most people would not be able to make that connection on their own. But references to or quotations from other works occur in many genres of music. I wonder if there is a way to quantify how "jaded" someone can become based on their exposure to a variety of music in a specific genre. It's probably highly dependent on the person.