These compositions represent impressions of sounds realized in solitude.
Contemporary culture, as idealized by communications media, actively opposes such perspectives.
Portrayals of everyday life as a constant, interactive immersion in the lives of others are patently untenable and dehumanizing. For reasons that are obviously commercial and political, people who conform to such thinking and create such conditions are easily led to dubious, even infantile, cultural fads and obsessions.
To pause and contemplate life with a moment's solitude is to resist the transparently false. This, from my perspective, is a critical purpose of sound and vision.
Contemporary culture, as idealized by communications media, actively opposes such perspectives.
Portrayals of everyday life as a constant, interactive immersion in the lives of others are patently untenable and dehumanizing. For reasons that are obviously commercial and political, people who conform to such thinking and create such conditions are easily led to dubious, even infantile, cultural fads and obsessions.
To pause and contemplate life with a moment's solitude is to resist the transparently false. This, from my perspective, is a critical purpose of sound and vision.
