In a sentence, for an artform like music to develop rifts are inevitable.
There is 'style' and 'taste', but also 'genre' / 'movements' in 'Art'. One's tastes can be general, like pop, death metal and The Beatles. Liking them all. However if one is involved in an artistic 'movement' this is not the case, there is more to it. I could say IMO, but I've been watching a few videos, two of Bennett interviews, and he makes this clear distinction. He sees Power Electronics, his term, as superior to Rock and Roll, a category in which he places Industrial, and superior to Noise, noise he says is a "Coffee table genre you don't really play". You pose with it... There is the rift, in art there are rifts. He sees latter PE as "re inventing music from the beginning", that "even if you don't like it its good", he speaks of 'a sense of adventure'. He sort in PE not to please an audience, he talked of dragging them screaming into the woods, of confrontation and provocation. "A particular void to fill" and that Punk might once have had something but became like rock mere "plagiarism".
Now I certainly don't agree with much of this, but it shows the difference between an avant garde art, something which Bennett certainly was attempting, and entertainment. Not that the latter is less IMO any less, though maybe for others, Bennett? Freddie Mercury wasn't IMO an avant garde artist but a consummate performer, even if one doesn't like the music. (I don't like soccer but can see Pele was a great player)
So my argument is in art there are rifts, Rothko hated Warhol (& Pop Art) and would cross the street to avoid him... to the extent of suicide at the condition of art... etc. Entertainment is different, and yes the two can merge. But for noise to develop it had to reject PE, IMO, for PE to develop it had to reject Industrial, Punk and Rock – in Bennett's opinion. Now my opinion is just that, Bennett's (and others) was more - were responsible for a new movement in music, Power Electronics. Like it or Lump it as they say.
The idea of plagiarism he also cites as reasons why latter day PE bands don't get it.
Well if you've got this far, a personal note; I lump it. That is I see the significance of PE in the development of what is called Avant Garde / Experimental music, but don't like it. Similar with surrealism.
In a sentence, if there are no longer rifts, there is no longer development.
