Re: [microsound] process vs achievement

[Alexandra Hettergott <a.hettergott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Kenric McDowell <kenric@xxxxxxxxx> (in repsonse to anechoic
<kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>)
>> ...the sound has to work without any extra information...
>I disagree. Hasn't it been established that a work or "text"
encompasses all
>associated ideas, cultural biases, extra information that a viewer or
>listener brings to the reception of the work? To assume otherwise
>presupposes an ideal listener who does not know the process/does not
know
>about the tools in general/knows nothing about music composition....
Well, it's yet just the communicational inherent to music that it
(ideally) would convey those basic aspects of (compositional) intention
and meaning carried therewith ; however, additional information _can_ be
useful, particularly for some more hermeneutic purposes...
-ah
......
Alexandra Hettergott.

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