Re: [microsound] overclean systems

[Bill Jarboe <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 12/11/02 10:24 AM, csorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx at csorg@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> So what of other paradigms for critique that are perhaps *not* engaging this
> binary didactic?  Can glitch participate in other forms of critique?  I'm
> interested in discussion & conceptual forms which disengage from the either/or
> proposition, such as Derrida's critiques that use two texts next to each other
> to resonate rather than oppose.  I'm just curious what else is out there, what
> the potential is...just musing...

  Hi,

 
  -have to resort to metaphors, I don't know how else to express it.

 I find that often times in life I want 'things'(objects , places , events)
and I have only a few instruments , writing paper , a pen etc. and alot of
thoughts , desires and so forth. I compose music . The events happen , I
meet the people etc. I recognize them  in and around , underneath , on top
of the music I composed.

 at this point it becomes easy to 'critique' my work. I can tell what I did
correctly . did wrong , could have improved , etc.

 an actual 'event' or 'experience' of living according to one's ideals may
have many components (or compositions). Some of these may be 'activated' or
realized instantaneously or take a long time to develop.

 There isn't just the emotion , state of bliss  or clarity . There is the
ground one walks upon , how one proceeds out of one's ideals , confronting
practical or mundane matters etc.

 For these reasons I think it necessary to listen  to alot of someone's work
, completed and in progress in order to get an idea of how that person
actually functions , and really; how the 'world' as conceived intellectually
by humans works. 

 I used to be more scornful of terms like 'postmodernism'. I'm still not
entirely convinced and sometimes see it as a  clever way of 'shuffling' , of
switching the price tags in the dark , of saying: "oh , these musty old
ideas  have no value anymore" in order to cash in on them when the lights go
on. .  

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