I thought you may have been thinking of Phillip Glass which puzzled me. I figured you had your reasons.
It's an intricate process why we like what we like which is why I'm not fond of 'like' threads. The ultimate result can be 'like against like' and why we do. The same goes for Kenny G threads. People out there like him and others don't. It doesn't mean that the individual liking him is not just as passionate about their music as someone who detests him. Why should it bother anyone, ya know? The listening process is a free one. Those that profess that they can't stand him vehemently are indicating their immaturity.
Yeah, minority following comes with the territory with experimental composition. Possibly because most of it's not ordinarily traveled? The brain has to create a different why to listen and who wants to do that when the usual music that they're comfortable with is fine?
I feel that most that do experiment are prepared for what's to come as in reaction. If they aren't and they expect reaction, and good reaction to boot because they're original, then they're in for a rude awakening. Never expect anything as in reaction and if reaction, good or bad, does happen, then that's a plus. Even if the reaction isn't a good one, the composer shouldn't feel slighted or territorial to their work. The composer can never definitively imagine adequately enough how another individual hears it, or hears anything for that matter. It's impossible to understand how it will be heard by another set of ears. Someone describing it is certainly not adequate enough.
Well if my stuff is aired on the radio and no one pays attention to it, it nevertheless made it that far, miraculously.
If I can only make the muzak circuit. Man, then I would know I really made the big time! lol....
People love Zappa...People hate Zappa....Why in the world would anyone get upset that their music isn't liked? It's a redundant ritual.
I recently read somewhere, on this site possibly, that Thelonius Monk professed never play to the audience's wants. Man, this has been my premise for over 30 years! I'm glad he said that and I'm not surprised he did, knowing a thing or two about Monk. Let the audience come to you....Why be unnecessarily bogged down trying to figure the audience out?