In what precise sense is Vinko Globokar's music materialist? Music at its most elementary is an act of supplication: a call to a figure of the big Other (beloved Lady, King, God...) to respond, not as the symbolic big Other, but in the real of his or her being (breaking his own rules by showing mercy; conferring her contingent love on us...). Here we might say that music in this sense is an act that is the breaking in of the fantasized Other. Music is thus an attempt to provoke the "answer of the Real," to give rise in the Other to the "miracle" of which Lacan speaks apropos of love, the miracle of the Other stretching back his or her hand to me. The historical changes in the status of "big Other" (grosso modo , in what Hegel referred to as "objective Spirit") thus directly concern music – perhaps musical modernity designates the moment when music renounces the endeavor to provoke the answer of the Other. Modern music is thoroughly and really atheist, MATERIALIST, not in the sense of the ridiculously pathetic spectacle of the heroic defiance of God, but in the sense of the insight into the irrelevance of the divine, again, along the lines of Brecht’s Herr Keuner