Sunday, October 05, 2014

Now Events, Now Relics

Every speculation about time future involves a perspective on time past.


This is a consideration of historical forces and their currency, or viability in the moment now, as applied to any cultural context-- science, politics, religion, the arts, and so on.

Rather than look ahead, creative interests insist I listen. What I hear are manifestations of clarity and chaos, as one might expect.  But the sources of each are peculiarly significant, in that disorder emanates from the trend towards exhaustion of the patterns and standards associated with "music", while clarity evolves out of a different perspective on the aesthetic quality, nature, and perception of sound itself, as associated with the historically modern avant-garde.

This sense of the evolving order of things is evinced in my methods and compositions, and thus some may illuminate and others obscure an ambivalence toward what is generally understood as music.