A quote from an interview with Toby Driver

[exciar28]

"Progressive music is music that takes existing idioms and advances them. It also should act as a springboard for other artists who will take your advancement of music and advance it even further. It’s different from avant-garde music, which builds an idiom from scratch. Avant-garde music arguably doesn’t have artistic qualities so much as industrial ones. Avant-garde music invents ideas and presents them as only ideas. Progressive artists get inspired by these avant-garde ideas and use them in their storytelling."

I totally agree. but I think it is hard to classify real avant-garde music from something which we usally call avant-garde.

 

[deadair]

...i'm soo tempted to post the rest of IW's interview with toby... but just for the board.

 

[IanDork107]

There are few artists around that could truly be called avant-garde based on it's actual definition.

 

[Demonspell]

Excellent quote, and I agree with the distinction between the merely progressive and the truly avant-garde.

 

[TheNewChupe]

imo, no artists on AvantGarde Records would qualify as falling under the true definition.