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How audiences resist unfamiliar aesthetic combinations

I learned Georgian polyphonic singing and want to layer it with electronic music but everyone I play it for says it sounds wrong together

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What we've seen

Listener expectations based on cultural familiarity create barriers to sonic experimentation across traditions.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Cross-cultural creativity — aesthetics across traditions?”

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