Re: [microsound] fountain cd

[jl@xxxxxxx (jl)]

Dada was (in my opinion) a rejection of "art", of aesthetics, of ideas=20=

and values. As a concept not in particular and including their own,=20
they would publish a manifest one day and reject it a few days later.

As I see it (or at least like to read into it) they went for a full=20
frontal direct experience without dampers, cushions and protecting=20
layers in the form of 'ideas, aesthetics and values'.

Or in short: Dont think - experience it!!

jl.

m=E5ndagen den 28 juli 2003 kl 09.10 skrev Aaron Ximm:

>> I thought to discourage aesthetics.... I threw the bottle-rack and =
the
>> urinal into their faces as a challenge and now they admire them for=20=

>> their
>> aesthetic beauty."--Marcel Duchamp
>
> An interesting quote, I haven't encountered it before. It will make me
> reconsider what I thought I knew about Dada, as a rejection of instead=20=

> of
> an expansion of the aesthetic.
>
> I think I have always carefully misread in Dada the latter ~ and as a
> field recordist I will happily continue to do so, rejecting this
> rejection.
>
> I often feel that to make field recordings and present them is, for =
me,
> predicated with the intention to say, 'listen. there is beauty here.'
>
> Perhaps this is laughably behind the times, reactionary, bourgeoise...
> modernist. It still feels right.
>
> I once tried to explain myself to someone as a 'curmudgeon for =
lovely.'
> [Lovely being a convenient polemic, I don't care exclusively for the
> pretty.]
>
>  aaron

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