[musicale]

> Surely a serious musician is going to want to create music that rewards attention

Not always. Consider Robert Rich's very serious idea of "egoless" music which isn't intended to command attention but to leave space for the listener's own internal attention and creation.

In his sleep concerts listeners even fall in and out of unconsciousness, presumably experiencing some interesting dreams as well.

> music expressly built for distracted people on shitty speakers they can barely hear

An apt description for many things, from wax cylinders to AM radio to MP3 to to music played on smartphones. Which is to say: all popular music since the 1890s, "serious" or not.