Re: [microsound] shades of techne, or the grey zone

[David Perkins <archontic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Completely passed me by the first time, but today I started to read
Catherine Clement's "Syncope" * and already on the first page:

" "Syncope" is a strange word. It pivots from the clinic to the art of
dance, tilts toward poetry, finally ends up in music. In each of these
fields, syncope takes on a definition. At first there is a shock, a
supression: something gets lost, but no one says what is won."

and, so I'm wondering, syncopology perhaps? - the (im)possible science/art
of the break, a science of time-out-of-joint, thinking at the limit, the
ravers' 'mystical' experience, and much more besides... a rush of
discourses: - medical, sociological, psychoanalytic, pyscho-pharmacological,
philosophical, aesthetic,....

"But what is going on? Where is the lost syllable, the beat eaten away by
the rhythm? Where does the subject go who later comes to, "comes back"?
Where am I in syncope?"

'Sun' = with, 'kopto' = cut, and hence 'syncope'.

with best wishes,
David
(Brighton, UK)

* Clement, Catherine (1994) "Syncope: The Philosophy of Rapture" University
of Minnesota Press (trans. Sally O'Driscoll, Deidre M. Mahoney)

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