Chuck Hoffman has a great post today on experimental music (namely, the most recent Fuck Buttons album) that has one the single greatest/poignant quotes regarding experimental music I've ever come across:
I think I realized somewhere along the line that part of what a typical "experimental" artist does is to bullshit (how big a part is up to artist, I suppose). Make something that people think is totally genius simply because it defies conventions and is different from what folks are used to, but that, apart from being weird, doesn't really have to be very well thought-out or even particularly good. I find that surprisingly easy to do, and I'm frequently surprised at the enthusiasm with which such product is received. And so what often seems to happen in "experimental" music is, you figure out how to get maximum reaction with minimum work.
Finally somebody came out and said it! Sometimes the emperors have no clothes.