Is New Music Too Simple?

“This creates the paradoxical situation that something intellectually very ambitious like Boulez’s piece has to fail at the very simple level of linguistic decoding by, for example, lay people. It is actually the case that the sounding surface of “Structures” is not too complex, but too banal for listeners who are not specially trained. It is actually the case that the sounding surface of “Structures” is not too complex, but too banal for listeners who are not specially trained.”

“https://blogs.nmz.de/badblog/2023/05/23/is-new-music-too-simple/”