Language evolves, as does the expectation of continuing communication between composer, performer and audience. The experience must be direct, but not facile or superficial. Thus, New Consonant Music can be listened to without the need for extensive technical or philosophical explanation. Music must speak for itself without the filters of explanation and classification - which lead to prejudgement and eventually to those artistic tyrannies which continue to result in the exclusion of some forms of contemporary music from 'the reasonable expectation of communication'. New consonant music is thus not a style nor an aesthetics.
Many different composers write new consonant music.
The form can be minimal or not, repetitive or not, tonal, modal or atonal. It can be a small accordion piece or a long large opera. So, the form has nothing to see with the definition of ncm. So, even if some composers are reluctant to admit it, ncm can be defined as a reaction to the modernist period. New Consonant Music can be presented as a post-modern trend.