I haven ' t listened to Splinter from start to finish in years I think I ' ve been inspired ! Damn I always got so amped when Never Gonna Find Me Lightning Rod kicked in . I think as a kid I combined those to a single mp 3 because there was no way to listen to just one of them . <| sep |> Spot on . He ' s all over the place with this and has a really limited view of academia and electronic music what basis does he even have for assuming people writ large in academia have no sense for what is front edge in electronic music ? . He ' s also presenting this as though it ' s some original notion of critique on the written score , but it ' s something that has been a conversation since the 90 s and before . Good lord . He sounds really bitter about something for some reason . Also , with what due respect there might be , fuck this guy for his comment that academics only care about the written note and not performing it . You don ' t have to be a gigging musician to care about playing the music you study .