How YouTube Is Changing Classical Music

“I discovered you can waste an awful lot of time on YouTube and become an expert in useless information. In the process, however, you are participating in a 21st century form of musical assimilation, a creative pursuit that is rooted both in Freud’s method of free association and in the random sampling that John Cage, Witold Lutoslawski and Steve Reich foretold as the basis for a new musical civilisation.”