On 2008-02-01, Nomen Nescio wrote:
> To draw attention to this state of affairs, the Neoist
> Alliance decided to disrupt Ian Stuart's performance of
> Harlequin at the Pavilion Theatre, Brighton, on 15 May
> 1993. This was not the first time Stockhausen had been
> targeted as a particularly obnoxious representative of 'high
> art'. Armed with placards bearing the slogan 'FIGHT RACIST
> MUSIC', Action Against Cultural Imperialism picketed his
....
> spokesperson. Stockhausen has claimed that much of his music
> is dictated to him by beings from a superior civilisation
> who live in a distant galaxy. The propaganda of the Neoist
> Alliance was designed to expose the mystical aura in which
> the composer shrouds his works as a blatant fraud.
A bit of googling (following the revival of this hooey) suggests that
it was probably copied from this page entitled "occult rites,
levitating buildings, fighting racism in music":
http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/neoism/stock.htm
The Neoists claim to have been trying to infiltrate Freemasonry too,
or perhaps fighting the infiltration.
They're militant, but apparently not militating in favour of
readability. Wrong galaxy?
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