Curtis Roads Part 2: Getting Granular

Talking about drugs and experimental electronic music is not as dumb as you might think. Just look at Morton Subotnick and his 60's san fran sit-ins with accompanying trippy projections.

Drugs make music sound better. Of course they do. The link between drugs and music is ancient and found in every culture. You can huff and try to ignore it or you can engage. He choose to huff. I think it showed him up rather than the interviewer.

i hate this notion that electronic music is intrinsically linked to drugs or more specifically halluncinogens. stockhausen didn't do drugs, neither did xenakis or pierre schaeffer, or most other electronic pioneers. it wasn't until the whole "rave" scene started. i also hate that people automatically assume "weird" music can only be made on drugs. i guess the thought that there are people like curtis roads who have such a radically different perception of reality frightens them.

what a STUPID DUMP ASS question.. why bring drugs into this ????????? lets face it he really aint gonna say yes to it is he! can just see it now headlines read 'accademic advocates the use of narcotics' STUPID DUMB ASSES.. how come they get to interview this guy and we can only watch it on youtube?

what a fucked up question to ask this genius! wtf =/

How fucking disrespectful of her to ask him that at the end. He's trying to explain his music, his life, and she asks that.

FUCK VICE and theyre American Apparel Alumni they hire.

Thanks Curtis!! Getting your Book.

Curtis is such a dedicated researcher, with YEARS nay decades of creativity behind him. To have all that intelligence responded to with a question like that at the end must've made him wonder whether there's any kind of world left out there to respond to all that effort.

There are a few of us with brains left, Mr. Roads, fear not. Sigh.

So awesome, Curtis is amazing. Could've done without the foolish question at the end.

last question was very badly judged and undermined an otherwise credible production. Should have been editied out, this guy is a reknowned academic, his teaching job depends on maintaining a professional and composed demeanor. Asking him to comment on whether or not his work (visualizations of) might be better experienced on drugs was basically an insult - and to add insult to injury, we get a long pause with Roads looking incredulous - perhaps he was double thinking talking to these idiots.