Re: [microsound] Re: Alternative performance devices

["the.kurtz.quartet" <kurtz@xxxxx>]

you have some points. but still, after 20 years, for me personally I'm
abandoning the pure sound stuff. not for economical reasons but for pure
personal ones. I no longer see this as a possible way forward.

just yesterday I remembered an old interview with Pierre Schaeffer that I
got as a photocopy from some magazine.  at that time, I used to ridicule it
and others just considered him old, confused and bitter. but now I think I
understand him!

I just found it on the web:
http://www.cicv.fr/association/shaeffer_interview.html

"So it seems that one of two things can happen in a period of high
technology; either .technology itself seems to come to the rescue of art -
which is in a state of collapse - (that was my starting point, Musique
Concrete with the tape-recorder, now electronic music, etc), or it's the
ideas of technology, ideas from mathematics, ideas with a scientific aura,
or real scientific ideas given an unreal relevance to an art which is
seeking its discipline - its ordering principles - outside itself instead of
within the source of its own inspiration. This coincidence of a music which
is debilitated and failing and a glorious, all-conquering science is what
really characterizes the 20th century condition."

03-06-01 01.43, "ndk" <ndkent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> but john coltrane plays music. he is not throwing a more or (more often)
>> less structured stream of noise at his audience. music can stand alone.
> 
> My understanding was that his musical language was extremely radical in
> its day.
>

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