Re: [microsound] Lovebomb

[Thad Biggerstaff <daht73@xxxxxxxxx>]

> By undertaking this move both sonically and in his
> writing, Thaemlitz
> counters the humanist rhetoric of mastery and the
> "sacred," the "Real," that
> many are at pains to save. I would extend his
> argument to say that anytime
> we pose a "sacred," a "Real," we are setting up a
> transcendental,
> exteriorized centre to (absently) ground a system of
> love/hate that takes as
> precondition the Oedipal construct of the humanist
> subject of mastery (most
> brilliantly played with in his track on domestic
> violence).

why "exteriorized"? why "(absently)"?
i see this harking to Oedipal constructs as
reductionism, personally...

> Thus "love" is not a focus on negatives, but the
> unravelling of "love" is a
> project of understanding the cultural constructions
> of this humanist notion
> of power and mastery. "Love" is a cultural
> construct, and all the worse for
> its presuppositions of "universality."

>From my point of view, love is more than a cultural
construct! It is informative, even necessary to
understand culture, but one should then strive to live
through it, beyond it...
 
> What I would affirm in Thaemlitz's reading are hints
> toward an-other
> thinking and experiencing of love that would not be
> bound to a system of
> hate. I think this is what you are getting at too,
> although it would be a
> mistake to confuse Thaemlitz's deconstruction with
> his gestures towards
> an-other gesture of "love." 

this was one of the things i was getting at yes...

> And I will say that this
> album is predominantly
> dark and melancholic, a requiem to the death of
> "love," (we might even say
> the "death of god") rather than an exploration of
> its possible
> otherness--which, I would perhaps say, perhaps
> remains "to come:" impossible
> to announce or predict as it will come without
> warning, the impossible
> arrival. 

:) its here already, for the saying. why focus on the
hate, the "death of love", indeed the supposed "death
of god"? thats the easiest thing to do (isnt that a
quote from the original Solaris? :)

> Although this "love" would have nothing to
> do with claims of the
> "sacred" or the "Real," which are the underlying
> problematics of the
> love/hate dichotomy.

id be interested in seeing exactly what sort of love
is to be projected that isnt referenced to the Real,
or that isnt reduced to the negatives that pervades
Lovebomb. and i dont think the love/hate dichotomy is
*necessarily* problematic! again, as example, read
Rumi... 

> 
> Personally I dig Thaemlitz .. very few people out
> there doing this kind of
> thinking in their work.

i dig the *sound* of his music rather than the
thinking behind it, which i obviously try to leave by
the way side. i do wish he would do music for music
sake. beautiful aspects to his sound, though. the way
he deconstructs strings and piano and voice.
sublime...

-Thad

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