Cultures bound to ideologies are, without exception, failures.
Creators, artists, writers and composers, free your minds, or remain in the shadows.
Creators, artists, writers and composers, free your minds, or remain in the shadows.
Friday, November 25, 2016
Thursday, November 24, 2016
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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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
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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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Abstract
No single perspective expresses reality. It cannot be done.
Perceive sounds in spatial environments and give concrete expression to their forms in ways that may be reproduced as aesthetic atmospheres. This is the artist as composer's point of view and stated goal, informed by personal aesthetic sense, cultural history, science, and the inner ear, rather than by music.
Perceive sounds in spatial environments and give concrete expression to their forms in ways that may be reproduced as aesthetic atmospheres. This is the artist as composer's point of view and stated goal, informed by personal aesthetic sense, cultural history, science, and the inner ear, rather than by music.
Monday, November 21, 2016
Silence
Where expression is shackled to ideology, inauthentic expression is all-pervasive.
Even where every form of speech, art, and action appears to be accepted, what cannot be expressed are opposing viewpoints, which are taboo and "unthinkable". The result is that true perceptions may not be revealed. The insight that consciousness implies soul cannot be spoken where the idea of the existence of a "soul" is not countenanced by those whose understanding is predicated upon falsity.
The artist, as renegade, must live according to the way of the warrior.
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Sunday, November 20, 2016
Gordian
Totalitarian cultures function in the same manner as cults.
They create mysteries, and enemies. They inform every need of all initiates, who are conditioned to provide all answers to all questions except the ones they are not allowed to ask. They tolerate only a single perspective, and those who see differently are "the other", thus evil. Every aspect of society is permeated with a single ideology that cannot be undone.
Individuality is, consequently, forbidden, because ultimately freedom will overcome.
They create mysteries, and enemies. They inform every need of all initiates, who are conditioned to provide all answers to all questions except the ones they are not allowed to ask. They tolerate only a single perspective, and those who see differently are "the other", thus evil. Every aspect of society is permeated with a single ideology that cannot be undone.
Individuality is, consequently, forbidden, because ultimately freedom will overcome.
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Restoration
Only the individual can take initiative and responsibility.
Within culture, there is order as well as disorder. Neither is permanent, regardless of which is desirable to one cultural faction or another.
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Friday, November 18, 2016
Will and the Real
Culture will be free, and freely develop, or it will not be at all.
Subjected to the coercive force of ideology, and particularly that of a collectivist nature, culture invariably fails entirely, becoming absurd. This cannot be stopped, and has come to pass generally.
It can, however, be overcome and restored, for the simple reason that it cannot compete with free thought and expression.
Subjected to the coercive force of ideology, and particularly that of a collectivist nature, culture invariably fails entirely, becoming absurd. This cannot be stopped, and has come to pass generally.
It can, however, be overcome and restored, for the simple reason that it cannot compete with free thought and expression.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
High Strangeness IV
The wealth of the artist is in the work.
At its highest level, the work is no more than expression of the real, the known, and the unknown.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Significance and Choice
Ideological observations, or "statements", are of brief duration.
Consider, in contrast, the timeless expression of universal beauty and strength art may attain, and the value of the work it demands.
Consider, in contrast, the timeless expression of universal beauty and strength art may attain, and the value of the work it demands.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Exercise XVI
Observe contrasting methods in all forms of action.
Evaluate possible outcomes resulting from spontaneity on the one hand, and restraint on the other. Consider the potential effects of impulsive force and that which is refined; note the nature of both reaction and response. Determine ways in which these forces come to a state of equilibrium, and apply these assessments, as warranted, to creative action.
Put simply, weigh the diverse means to attain total aesthetic effect, and experiment without regard to success or failure. In this manner, much is revealed.
Evaluate possible outcomes resulting from spontaneity on the one hand, and restraint on the other. Consider the potential effects of impulsive force and that which is refined; note the nature of both reaction and response. Determine ways in which these forces come to a state of equilibrium, and apply these assessments, as warranted, to creative action.
Put simply, weigh the diverse means to attain total aesthetic effect, and experiment without regard to success or failure. In this manner, much is revealed.
Monday, November 14, 2016
Extend and Elevate
Recognize the reality, rather than only that which is the appearance of reality.
With this recognition, the realization of direct perception may be grasped and sustained.
In any art form, this is a difficult concept to express, and it is no less so with the art of sound.
Nonetheless, it can and will be done, and those who are willing will listen, and hear.
With this recognition, the realization of direct perception may be grasped and sustained.
In any art form, this is a difficult concept to express, and it is no less so with the art of sound.
Nonetheless, it can and will be done, and those who are willing will listen, and hear.
Sunday, November 13, 2016
A Wave of Sound
See beyond the moment now.
The past is a wave, the present, a balance. Time Future is all becoming.
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Saturday, November 12, 2016
Light and Direction
Modern rationality is by no means required to discard tradition.
Nor is the contemporary, popular mind always dependent upon unreasoning emotion.
What is critical to cultural perspective is the ability to distinguish between appearance and reality, and this is no less true for the independent thinker, the warrior, the artist and the composer.
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Friday, November 11, 2016
A Call for Toleration, As If It Were So
Put simply, the contemplative reveals insights into reality and being.
Conversely, the archaic nineteenth century concept of scientific materialism, as it was called, asserts adherence to an understanding that the only reality is that which may be measured and quantified, and in this manner all there is may be known and understood, without limits.
Since that time, cultural diktat has demanded slavish, unspoken acquiescence to this concept among the self-styled "intellectual" classes, academic, political, literary, and "artistic", and there can be no questioning the absolute nature of this doctrinaire humanist approach without social ostracism.
More often than not, it is the sole determinant for inclusion in any contemporary cultural milieu.
Nonetheless, I compose, as a free individual, in the philosophical traditions of Boethius, Lao Tzu, Epictetus, and those who perceive a higher, universal order and power, with the consciousness of a human spirit and soul.
Conversely, the archaic nineteenth century concept of scientific materialism, as it was called, asserts adherence to an understanding that the only reality is that which may be measured and quantified, and in this manner all there is may be known and understood, without limits.
Since that time, cultural diktat has demanded slavish, unspoken acquiescence to this concept among the self-styled "intellectual" classes, academic, political, literary, and "artistic", and there can be no questioning the absolute nature of this doctrinaire humanist approach without social ostracism.
More often than not, it is the sole determinant for inclusion in any contemporary cultural milieu.
Nonetheless, I compose, as a free individual, in the philosophical traditions of Boethius, Lao Tzu, Epictetus, and those who perceive a higher, universal order and power, with the consciousness of a human spirit and soul.
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Wave Pools
Perception and impression prefigure expression.
Thus the art of sound is formed within an individual sense of aesthetic space and sonic beauty.
Thus the art of sound is formed within an individual sense of aesthetic space and sonic beauty.
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
Underground
The creative mind imposes its own limits.
If it is necessary to act outside and beyond culture to maintain integrity, it is a sacrifice made in the name of the future, and that is how it will be.
If it is necessary to act outside and beyond culture to maintain integrity, it is a sacrifice made in the name of the future, and that is how it will be.
Tuesday, November 08, 2016
None So Blind
Introspection yields expression, through insight and individual perspective.
Collectivist culture knows only a shallow sameness, incapable of recognizing originality and refusing to acknowledge its existence.
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Monday, November 07, 2016
Contemplative Depth
To hear, to see, perception must be freed of distraction in the guise of the marvelous.
Where specious excitement and frenetic sight and sound imagery cloud the day, the inner ear is stopped and the eye of imagination is blinded to the real. Discard this clutter, choose awareness.
The nature of elevated consciousness and expression welcomes immersion and clarity of being.
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Sunday, November 06, 2016
Simplicity, Expansion
Sounds coalesce.
Sensory experience suggests order, through a spectrum of degrees and myriad perspectives.
Sensory experience suggests order, through a spectrum of degrees and myriad perspectives.
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