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" The writer , who was raised in Penang and says she only listened to Malaysian pop , responded to Lim 's music " in a physical way . At a 1978 festival in Bombay , the saxophonist Sonny Rollins remarked that , far from being distinctively American , jazz was " really an international music " and that , as a student of Eastern philosophy and music , he was more interested in learning from other musical cultures than in imposing his own . Debussy remarked that he wanted to write music " without sauerkraut . One critic noted " a near absence of pulse " in his music " and a fastidious ear for instrumental colour . Since it was founded in 1971 , Speculum Musicae ( literally " a mirror of music " ) has been a vanguard of new music performance in the United States .