If the music I heard at the Fifth Annual Switchboard Music Festival can be used as a gauge of the state of contemporary composition today, I would have to say that contemporary music is a lot like my hairdryer.I don't have a very good hairdryer; I adopted it from a friend and I rarely use it. It doesn't bother me that it only has two modes: low and slow, and high and hot.But that the Switchboard Festival, a one day e…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 01:44PM on April 3, 2012