Re: [microsound] Re: grabbing people with a statement

[paul webb <paulwebb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

talk and artistic statements

knowledge influence our perceptual processes....the
information from the outside world is somehow combined
with structures in our memories.

what we hear is influenced by what we expect to hear.

physical sound sensation to cognition is not a uni-
directional, by has many other thing acting on it. 



--- Kenric McDowell <kenricm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 06:55 
> AM, ---------------- --------------- wrote:
> 
> > I have no gripes with any matters of dis-respect
> towards audiences or 
> > venues due to the fact they do or should know what
> they are getting 
> > themselves into.
> >
> > My concern is with what Christopher Sorg started
> to mention.  I 
> > understand that most of the individuals involved
> in "contemporary"(i do 
> > not use the word experimental because it hardly
> applies) music attach 
> > some kind of  "statement", "message", or "meaning"
> to their work.  This 
> > idea puzzles me.  Sound has no meaning.  It just
> is.  We may want to 
> > dress it up in any infinite possibilties but that
> doesnt make it so.  
> > Many artists present their work with so much talk
> that I wonder what 
> > would happen if the talk wasnt there.  Would the
> work hold itself up?  
> > Sometimes I feel there is a definite amount of
> over intellectualization 
> > in the arts fields.  It is almost masturbatory. 
> If you have a message 
> > or statement words are alot more efficient.   Is
> it possible to 
> > appreciate sounds for what they are, not as some
> vessel for my 
> > self-expression or ideas?
> 
> Language is musical. And thank you for that
> statement about sound I 
> suppose I 'll be thinking about it when I'm
> listening to only-themselves 
> sounds. Context, interpretation, interpenetration.
> Law of the observer. 
> It's possible to fetishize a void. Both an artist
> and a monk?
> 
> In a contractual, legalistic, consumer sense, of
> course, you are right 
> when it comes to matters of  respect.
> 
> 
> -km
> 
> 
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