An interview with Joanna Newsom. On her time studying composition at Mills College:

My music generally retains an interest in melody and harmony and some sort of meter– it might be a polymeter, but some sort of meter that repeats for more than one bar. But a lot of these ideas that I was interested in seemed to be considered pass?©, like they were unworthy of discussion and unworthy of listening. I wouldn’t necessarily say that would be true of the professors at that school, but the climate was dictated by what the students were interested in, and most of them were writing incredibly dissonant music on their laptop computers and didn’t play instruments [or] know how to write notation.

Sad and hilarious.