(Sidenote: I’m a composer, and I often have trouble making heads and tails out of Carter and Schoenberg, precisely because it is HUMAN ART at its highest form. Asking sparrows to make sense out of such music is like asking your beagles to choose between a Rothko and a Rembrandt, or an essay by you and an essay by Juan Cole. In the end, this kind of art isn’t meant to be natural or reflective of anything natural. It is a human activity, as every artist knows…

if only the viewers/listeners/readers could remember that, too…