Week 6 2/9/20

Vision centers consciousness, and expands both.

Observe cultures that are unified by shared visions, in contrast with those that fail.

Week 41 10/13/19

Foresight reveals possibilities.

Of course this is true for every area of life. It is a creative process.  Expand your thinking. 

Consider, contemplate, and act according to the unfolding of reality.

Week 41 10/14/18

Creativity is often directed by silent, powerful forces.

These influences are interwoven with the arc of history. They are always present, and waiting to be made manifest through individual ideas and actions.

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Vision and Risk

With authentic change, unexpected opportunities arise.

Those capable of expressing these cultural phenomena will be the first to recognize and realize them.

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Singularity of Form and Content

Ubiquity and saturation have reduced all media to a nugatory state.

Feigned interest is the rule of the day.  One can no longer say, such and such a thing is "marvellous", or "unique",  Availability and repetition renders even the finest forms commonplace, mundane, and, to some extent, regardless of quality, banal.

Those seeking authentic representations of experience must discover expression that is sui generis, uncanny, unexpectedly original, and transformational.  One must go far beyond externals to do so.

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Near Distances

Where the commonplace ends, risk begins.

Discover the unseen, and find sounds unheard.

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Illuminate

As the eye is opened, so the ear is filled, expanding awareness.

To drive perceptual acuity down to narrow limits is absurd.  One sees the world, listens, and hears, beyond the contexts of art and music.

This is elevation, of aesthetic insight and individual consciousness.

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Expansion, Diminishment

Some define the role of the composer as an author or creator of "art" as "serious music".

While this may be useful to certain people, and particularly those who adhere to general cultural norms related to music, it is a view that is inimical to wide-ranging perspectives on art and sound.  

These latter viewpoints cannot be conveniently restricted or labeled, but they are in many ways notable as modern, dynamic, individualistic, and avant-garde, though these terms simply suggest starting points for an aesthetic understanding those bound to the former are unlikely to pursue.  

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Space Time Sound

Consider the surrounding environment a vessel.

Envision, generate the sonic palette, and compose according to the idea that it is the virtue of the vessel to be filled.   From these simple fundamentals, approach new sonic atmospheres. 

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Listen, and Hear

Language is music, laden with meaning.

Every perceptible sound is charged with intimations of equal moment, if we can but read them.

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Artist and Medium

Control what is possible, let go what will be fulfilled beyond interference.

This is the virtue of gesture, the reward of practice, and the fruit of experience.

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Order and Flux

Reality is unchanging, though perspectives alter any understanding, and much remains unknown.

Culture and society form a continuum of change that constantly evolves beyond the grasp of historical perspectives as the heretofore unimagined becomes commonplace.

But as ways of life, art, and expression, these are subject to unchanging reality.

Intuitive Illumination

Art evokes elevation, and perceptual experience is heightened.

Empirical science measures neither aesthetic force and virtue, nor enlightened state of being.

Familiar, Yet Alien

No one will deny that current conditions set the stage for future events.

But there are other influences, as yet unknown, that will come to the fore as well.

Search and Discover

Observe appearances, recognize realities behind them.

It is the uncanny that is at once familiar and yet strange, alien, and unknown.

Remote, Immediate

Dissipated force of what has been does not become more, and is lost.

Loss of this nature is complete, and permanent. One understands that such things, people, and events impacted reality and culture in ways no longer evident, and that they are increasingly becoming entirely obscure.  At a certain point it will be as if they had never existed.

The artist who creates to evoke the uncanny seeks outcomes at a far remove from such scenarios.

If Purpose, So Meaning

Stylization reflects aesthetic sense.

As manner and gesture reflect tone and attitude, the artistic representation references tradition and nature according to artist intent. Impressions are thus altered as they become expressions.

Marrow, Nerve, Light

Ideas have consequences; causes produce effects.

The most dangerous conflicts are not always won through armed combat.

Impress, Artifact, and the Windblown

Even realism is a stylized reflection.

The realism I strive for in my compositions and recordings is perceptual in nature, that is to say, it reflects how environments develop their impressions upon the listener within one's aural field.

The total effect is neither music nor directly perceived atmosphere, but the former structured as the enhancement of the latter's subtle forms, patterns, and movements.

Strange Tales

There are those who suggest self-expression is not a "right" and should be "controlled".

In one direction, horses are hauling manure; in the other, they are being bred for war.