Re: [microsound] Stockhausen and his reality ?

["kranning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <kranning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> "What had happened there, is - now you have to convert your brain - the
> greatest artwork, which has ever existed. That human minds can fullfil
> something in one act, what we couldn't dream of in music, that people are
> rehearsing like mad during ten years, completely fanatic, for one concert
> and then die, that is the greatest artwork which has ever been existing for
> the whole cosmos. I couldn't do that. We as composers are nothing against
> that."

hmm what's up here?

composers deal only with sound waves, which are invisible + have little
physical force. the composer exerts force by attempting to achieve an
"emotional resonance" which may or may not occur + may or may not have a
lasting effect.

it's like the cliche of the scholar envying the laborer -- tired of
intangible ideas and invivible processes, he longs to create a tangible,
utilitarian, physical object, with his own hands.

perhaps it's a common thought...the composer, uncertain of the power of his
work, imagines a verifiable proof of his power. (yes..probably "his"
uncertainty, not "hers".) thus: Wagner's will-to-power, Gurdjieff's
"objective art", and conversations about ultrasound as a weapon that
pop up from time to time on this very list.

so perhaps lieber karlheinz was only taking an inappropriately philsophical
outlook. rather than being too political, he was only being too apolitical.

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