[bcheung]

From reading it, I almost got the impression there are 2 different worlds of music and they are completely isolated.

That led me to wonder if there should be more cross pollination between the two.

When speaking of, and indeed when many modern electronic music composers write music they don't think in terms of phrases, chords, cadences, etc. The tools they use to write music don't have notes on a staff, they are just rectangles in a graph (1 axis for pitch and the other for time).

But at the same time, those who compose in the more traditional sense only stick to the sounds, patterns, and vocabulary from the classical world. They don't do anything like "drops".

It would be really interesting to hear what could come from the combination of the two and also the productivity that could be gained by both worlds learning about the concepts and tools used by the other.

[dublinben]

There are (at least) two separate worlds of music according the field of musicology. The two worlds represented here are art music and popular music. The other major category of music is traditional or folk music.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_music

[icebraining]

http://pitchfork.com/features/article/8778-indie-classical/