Re: [microsound] [ot] RGB freq?

[dkl37@xxxxxxxx]

Kurt Ralske writes:

> these days, taking some data and transforming it into some other 
> type of data is a very popular strategy for art-making. if you like,
it's 
> alchemy: distilling the essence and transforming the residue.
													
> these days, Concept is King, and Process is Queen. the alchemical 
> process is "magic", and is used to validate the artistic endeavor. but
what 
> if only green sludge is produced, and not gold? "well -- i did perform 
> alchemy -- only the process is important, and the process was
magic"															
Nicely put. It's not hard to see the obvious pitfalls and to also notice
the, dare I say, pretentiousness of this approach, but I also can still
appreciate some of the works that fall into this category just the same.
But usually it's work that *just so happens* to have an interesting
result. For me, some of the releases of WRK or Selektion are good
examples of this, although I wouldn't say that (for example) Tsunoda
necessarily "removes himself from his work" so to speak. Aside from some
of his semi-scientific liner note descriptions, he's trying to convey
something much more and I think his work surely conveys that, depending
on the listener's investment of attention.  
													
> i'm sort of old-fashioned, and think that: a) putting all the emphasis
on
> the process is impersonal, and the resultant work is often mute and
> inexpressive, and b) artists can communicate amazing things, by making
good
> decisions that directly shape the work, in an expressive and dynamic 
> way, rather than by just initiating a set of conditions + removing
themselves.
													
It's ironic, but the "impersonal" "process over results" approach in
soundwork seems to sometimes also lack a certain critical objectivity of
it's own results. So what sometimes occurs is that an artist releases a
work that successfully attains the goal of their experiment, but instead
of thinking to see if the idea could be taken further in order to create
more compelling results, they settle on what they have and release it to
the public prematurely. Perhaps this is partially what you meant when you
refered to the emphasis on the process as "being a poor excuse" (?). Then
again, I usually can't shake the feeling that I release most of my own
work prematurely.. . .. .. ...   :-))  				
Best, Dale
													

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Dale Lloyd:  http://www.and-oar.org/dalelloyd.html                       
                  
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