Re: [microsound] Re:ambient books

["The pHarmanaut" <pharmanaut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings all.

> Marcel Proust; '`A la Recherche du temps Perdu'.

I think that it's pretty clear that we're a fairly well-read bunch in
diverse areas. As well as dropping author/title suggestions, I'd like to ask
that we carry on this conversation about how a literary form might function
in an ambient fashion. I think that it could illuminate the impulse toward
creating ambient objects of any sort, musical, literary or otherwise. I
think that within an "ambient literature" there has to be something more to
the work than an interior focus on atmospherics, a surrendering of what some
here have positioned as conventionally emphasized features such as plot,
character and so on.

Can a literary object tint an objective environment? I'm not sure that it
can except in two ways: one, as mentioned before, the work functions
individually in a psychoactive fashion to alter the perceptive faculties of
the user/reader; two, the work functions collectively by being performed,
that is, read aloud.

-=Trace

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