From echoes of Stockhausen in the Dirty Projectors to Arvo Pärt's effect on Radiohead, it's more than a bit of fun to think about the links between indie music and modern classical Before I'm away for a week, a belated catchup with a good post over at flavorwire.com (thanks to Peter Meanwell , breakfast researcher , Ligeti and ukulele fanatic, and Radio 3 producer, for alerting me to it) on the links between today's indie scene and yesterday's – well, and today's – classical composers. Max Willens has come up with a quixotic concatenation of influences, from echoes of Stockhausen in a recent album from Dirty Projectors , John Adams 's subliminal inspiration on Owen Pallett and Arvo Pärt 's effect on Radiohead. There's already a well-documented link between the postwar classical and pop scenes; more intriguingly, Max suggests a speculative link between Monteverdi's madrigals, Dirty Projectors (again) and A Sunny Day in Glasgow . It's obvious to hear what he means in A Sun...
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