Re: [microsound] R: Boulez Project Invitation

[dkl37@xxxxxxxx]

Andrea Valle writes:

> 2. To destroy (material) culture is always subtly dangerous and 
> potentially fascist. Adolescential in the worst sense. Better a
potlach, isn't  it?

Methinks people are making assumptions that they have no grounds for. I
have no intention of defending Ronsen's proposed project, but if you read
the following passage again more closely, you will see that the outcome
is intended to create a NEW WORK OF ART, in the spirit of (Ronsen's
understanding of) Boulez's work. This would be hardly considered as
"potentially fascist" in my book.																	
> Years ago, French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez wrote that "All
art 
> of the past must be destroyed." Before and since writing that 
> statement, he has made a living in presenting many art works of the 
> past, from Handel to Beethoven to Wagner to Stravinsky. In my 
> project, I am collecting recordings of Boulez's work as a composer 
> and a conductor. Once I have assembled a sufficient number of 
> recordings (and books and scores), my comrades and I will destroy 
> them through various means in a performance creating a new work of 
> art of the Present.																							
Best, Dale

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