Today I bought my first quite avant­garde and exper­i­men­tal musi­cal medium.

Sword­fishtrom­bones by Tom Waits

And while hear­ing the 15 songs right now I real­ized in nearly every song, what the role of an exper­i­ment­ing musi­cian and song­writer is — most of the time con­cern­ing the main­stream and pop­u­lar media. You are the ones to change people’s mind.
Although I know Waits is quite the most pop­u­lar musi­cian besides the main­stream, he has some really unusual approaches in his aural art. Every song I heard in this LP fea­tures one big dif­fer­ence com­pared to main­stream music.

But by high­light­ing things like the use of sharp dis­so­nances, exotic per­cus­sion or breath­ing instead of singing in rhythm you sharpen the lis­ten­ers mind to con­cen­trate on exactly those things. And imple­ment­ing such things in pop­u­lar music like techno or piano bal­lads, the way music is pre­sented to the wide mass is changed slowly but steadily.