Re: [microsound] Re: concept queens

["Phil Thomson" <hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> the composer is stealing a little bit from the life
>of each listener....

as a listener i like to feel that a composer has enriched my life 
rather than stolen from it. unless their stuff sucks of course (and i 
am usually quite forgiving).
as a composer i prefer to think of my music-creating as having more 
in common with the concept of the "potlatch".

Phil: True enough. I kind of wondered whether or not there was an
untranslatable pun going on. In French "voler", if I recall, is the word
for both "steal" and "fly". Perhaps Murail was suggesting that the
composer can both steal and give flight to the life of the listener. But
that's just a hopeful theory. 

>"We are often told that the avant-garde is behind us, that we have
>achieved so much distance and perspective that only a 'post-modern'
>perspective is possible. However, in my daily life as a composer, this
>idea is disproved. I continue to search for new ideas and materials....
>[I]f we stick to the etymology of the term, by definition there will
>always be an avant-garde, or our [culture] is dead."
>

just because one continues to "search for new ideas and materials" 
doesn't mean they are actually there.
there is also this assumption that our culture is NOT dead... which 
culture? whose culture? the avant-garde of what? i think the concept 
of an avant-garde is very euro-centric to begin with, as if there 
were only one valid cultural strand, and that some subset of humans, 
so-called "avant-gardists" were somehow at the forefront of it all...

Phil: Yes, that's the usual understanding of the avant-garde. But I'm
interested in an avant-garde that's concatenatory rather than
subsumptive: one that simply adds new "percepts" (is my Deleuzian streak
showing?) to the available field, rather than attempting to replace or
destroy all that has gone before; a provisional and humble avant-garde. 

-- 
CommTom
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