What is can not become what must be.
This is the nature and challenge of transformation.
This is the nature and challenge of transformation.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Friday, January 30, 2015
Embrace Falling Night
Sustain and abstain.
These are the choices the composer considers before acting to bring sounds into being.
These are the choices the composer considers before acting to bring sounds into being.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Emotion, Perception
Consider the "feel" of sound.
Artistic choice in matters of representation allows for elements of composition expressing subjective mood and tone, and various degrees of clarity of impression as well. Each, whether working together or separately, contributes to the total effect of the work at hand.
Artistic choice in matters of representation allows for elements of composition expressing subjective mood and tone, and various degrees of clarity of impression as well. Each, whether working together or separately, contributes to the total effect of the work at hand.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Redefine Sound
Undo the damage of habitual, unconscious perceptions of "music" and "noise".
Discover what does not meet expectations. Listen to what is not there until it can be heard.
Discover what does not meet expectations. Listen to what is not there until it can be heard.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Trash, Treasure
The generic musical forms exist as structured expressions, and cannot simply be abandoned.
Neither should they be subjects of extraordinary emotional attachments. Superior sounds are to be expanded, inferior ones are to be tamed and minimized. To accept idle immersion in all that comes before is to be desensitized. Sound is analogous to the experience of being. Being is expansion of awareness and knowledge in this moment now.
Neither should they be subjects of extraordinary emotional attachments. Superior sounds are to be expanded, inferior ones are to be tamed and minimized. To accept idle immersion in all that comes before is to be desensitized. Sound is analogous to the experience of being. Being is expansion of awareness and knowledge in this moment now.
Monday, January 26, 2015
Higher, Towards the Eclipse
Musical and artistic artifacts saturate culture at all times.
This does not stop innovation, and cannot stand in the way of experimentation. Audiences may become complacent with an overabundance of what were once riches. The artist will not.
This does not stop innovation, and cannot stand in the way of experimentation. Audiences may become complacent with an overabundance of what were once riches. The artist will not.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Aesthetics and Meaning
Make time for art.
Gain insight into the real. Grasp the nature of appearances. Illuminate life.
Gain insight into the real. Grasp the nature of appearances. Illuminate life.
Saturday, January 24, 2015
Subject / Object
The art of sound must, from time to time, mean sudden realization.
Listening perception engages consciousness; consciousness expands beyond the "self".
Listening perception engages consciousness; consciousness expands beyond the "self".
Friday, January 23, 2015
Engagement and its Opposite
The reality of the cultural climate is that it is constantly changing.
If the artist is not to be swayed accordingly, it is necessary to remain focused on a singular vision.
If the artist is not to be swayed accordingly, it is necessary to remain focused on a singular vision.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Cultural Politics
One would be wise to remember that, ultimately, social groups bring about the culture they deserve.
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Motion
Art, among many things, is a perception of experience.
Expression inspires greater experience, evolving in this manner. The joyless pursuit of fame and wealth is a different matter entirely, and for that, audience and artist can be grateful.
Expression inspires greater experience, evolving in this manner. The joyless pursuit of fame and wealth is a different matter entirely, and for that, audience and artist can be grateful.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Energy
Virtue is a force of good.
In music, the idea of virtue may be problematic. In the case of sound art, the good is self-evident, or it exists not at all.
In music, the idea of virtue may be problematic. In the case of sound art, the good is self-evident, or it exists not at all.
Monday, January 19, 2015
Supposing
Sounds are interesting when they have a degree of aesthetic appeal and meaning.
When there is a dearth of innovation, what follows is a great deal of "re-imagining", and the status quo is thereby sustained while it yet declines. Observe music culture as the clearest example, its common patterns and deteriorating archetypes replicated again and again, growing vapid and empty.
It is not repetition, but juxtaposition that possesses intrinsic interest, evoking meaning through renewal of sound and vision.
When there is a dearth of innovation, what follows is a great deal of "re-imagining", and the status quo is thereby sustained while it yet declines. Observe music culture as the clearest example, its common patterns and deteriorating archetypes replicated again and again, growing vapid and empty.
It is not repetition, but juxtaposition that possesses intrinsic interest, evoking meaning through renewal of sound and vision.
Sunday, January 18, 2015
Saturday, January 17, 2015
State, Setting, Feeling
Ultimately, no "narrative" is acceptable.
Art, culture, politics, and myriad perspectives both social and personal cannot be tried by their so- called narratives, that is to say, their associated representations, justifications, or articulations.
They live, or are found not to exist at all, through experience, which is why I say listen, and hear.
Art, culture, politics, and myriad perspectives both social and personal cannot be tried by their so- called narratives, that is to say, their associated representations, justifications, or articulations.
They live, or are found not to exist at all, through experience, which is why I say listen, and hear.
Friday, January 16, 2015
Complacency and Doubt
Conformity to trending attitudes does not confer cultural perspective.
Clearly this is contrary to popular opinion, but popular opinion is an insult to individual intelligence. There is no monolithic "we" that "shares" anything. There is only perception, insight, and proper understanding of the appearances of reality,
These do not exist in unquestioning acceptance of group norms.
Cultural perspective demands right reason, freedom of thought, and contemplative reflection. The way of the artist demands the same, if the art is to be of significant cultural meaning and importance.
Clearly this is contrary to popular opinion, but popular opinion is an insult to individual intelligence. There is no monolithic "we" that "shares" anything. There is only perception, insight, and proper understanding of the appearances of reality,
These do not exist in unquestioning acceptance of group norms.
Cultural perspective demands right reason, freedom of thought, and contemplative reflection. The way of the artist demands the same, if the art is to be of significant cultural meaning and importance.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Apocalypse Past
Rarely is music central to culture and of premier importance.
By historic measure, such times are brief, revealing the nature of the human condition as only art can with respect to life's impermanence. Hollow echoes follow, sustaining the futility of nostalgia.
Yet art remains, to be revealed in different ways, including those brought to light by the art of sound.
By historic measure, such times are brief, revealing the nature of the human condition as only art can with respect to life's impermanence. Hollow echoes follow, sustaining the futility of nostalgia.
Yet art remains, to be revealed in different ways, including those brought to light by the art of sound.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Amid the Predictable
One may perceive deeply, or not at all.
Art exists independently, and makes no demands upon an audience.
Art exists independently, and makes no demands upon an audience.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Obscured Presences
In plain sight.
Sibelius. Debussy. Satie. Tone Poems. Impressionism. Furnishing Music.
Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan. Birth of the Cool. Terry Riley. John Cage. Minimalism. Indeterminacy.
Lists do not end; there is only failure to know, and to do.
Ideas of value may become lost, misunderstood, or set aside, but they do not cease to exist.
Sibelius. Debussy. Satie. Tone Poems. Impressionism. Furnishing Music.
Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan. Birth of the Cool. Terry Riley. John Cage. Minimalism. Indeterminacy.
Lists do not end; there is only failure to know, and to do.
Ideas of value may become lost, misunderstood, or set aside, but they do not cease to exist.
Monday, January 12, 2015
Search
It is a way of sound.
It is everywhere, yet it goes unnoticed. Those who claim to seek it want it to be something other than what it is. Those who find it know it is beyond description.
Listen. It is always present, yet it must always be heard within. Then it will resonate throughout the greater world.
It is everywhere, yet it goes unnoticed. Those who claim to seek it want it to be something other than what it is. Those who find it know it is beyond description.
Listen. It is always present, yet it must always be heard within. Then it will resonate throughout the greater world.
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