approximations (more techno-mysticism)

[Clic-Clic Alondra <a_clic_clic@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I cannot pretend to state a Truth here about music, as I have merely 
attempted to explain how I fit it into my view of the world, but as a 
rational and generally logical human as well as a musician I find music is 
one of the ways out under the drawbridge of the sometimes oppressive 
dominion of reason and logic.
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(1)
But is not the aleatory excess of language another such way out?  When I 
think of the approximation to musical experience through words, that is just 
what I mean.  The game is poetry, which is what much criticism for better or 
worse (and short of Wittgensteinian rigor) ends up in.

(2)
Doesn't the image of the unstuffed plaything presuppose a plenitude that is 
thwarted?  Moreover, is not the beauty of that image itself a kind of 
talisman against such foils?  At the very least, is it not a warning sign 
reading "proceed at your own risk"?  (And we do, we do.)

Alondra

on now: alvin lucier's crossings (lovely '90)
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