“From a distance, the forms, techniques, and building materials of music may seem to be cumulative, like a technological tradition. But music is not a branch of technology, though it is affected by technological developments. It is more like philosophy, which may also give a superficial impression of being evolutionary. Each apparently new idea in … Continue reading Ethnodebate
“The last room of the ‘Anarchy of Silence’ exhibition is taken up with a 2007 realization of ‘Lecture on the Weather,’ with John Ashbery, Jasper Johns, and Merce Cunningham among the reciters. I sat for a long time in the gallery, listening to the grim swirl of sound and observing the reactions of visitors. Some … Continue reading Our Poetry Now Is the Realization that We Possess Nothing
“LINE AND FISH Approaching it in one way I see no essential difference between a line one calls ‘abstract’ and a fish. But an essential likeness. This isolated line and the isolated fish alike are living beings with forces peculiar to them, though latent. They are forces of expression for these beings and of impression … Continue reading Line and Fish
“All the clouds turn to words. … Continue reading Sky Saw
“However we analyse the difference between the regular and the irregular, we must ultimately be able to account for the most basic fact of aesthetic experience, the fact that delight lies somewhere between boredom and confusion.” [GOMBRICH, Ernst: The Sense of Order: A Study in the Psychology of Decorative Art] Continue reading Somewhere between Boredom and Confusion
“The sound object, represented most dramatically by the romantic symphonies of the nineteenth century, has been fractured and remade into a shifting, open lattice on which new ideas can hang, or through which they can pass and interweave. This is one metaphor. Landscape is another—a conjured place through which the music moves and in which … Continue reading A Shifting, Open Lattice
“Inventer, cela consiste précisément à ne pas construire les combinaisons inutiles et à construire celles qui sont utiles et qui ne sont qu’une infime minorité. Inventer, c’est discerner, c’est choisir.” [POINCARÉ, Henri: Science et Méthode] Continue reading Inventer
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