Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Spurious

It has become necessary to encourage perception of the objective world.


The insidious idea that reality will conform to individual or collective will is commonplace, and no more valid than at any time within cultural history. It pervades the arts, sciences, and media.

Ultimately, the cultural consensus will gravitate toward representations of the real, no matter how imaginatively expressed.  Thus these recordings, for example, enhance atmospheres rather than dominate the listener's attention. The reality of listening to these albums is simply this: the listener is able to think and perceive in a natural state of attention, as opposed to a state overcome by a surfeit of bland excess.  Escape from reality is not the point, but rather immersion in fullness of experience.