"Imagine a grid of national boundaries, and on to those project a new, non-physical communications-derived geography -- tribes of like-minded thinkers."
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"I would like the message of Fourth World to be that things shouldn't be diluted. This balance between the native identity and the global identity via various electronic extensions is not one that can be dictated or necessarily predicted ... it becomes very useful to look at other cultures, small culture, and try to develop a modus operandi for the new age, not New Age."
-Jon Hassell, in Ocean of Sound, 167-8
addendum 2023: Hassell seeks "an expansion of the 'allowable' musical vocabulary in which one may speak [musical] structure -- leaving behind the ascetic face which Eurocentric tradition has come to associate with serious expression"