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RE: SV: Re: [microsound] no OS



just goes back to the age old question of where ART occurs=2E is it in the=
=20
mind of the creator or in the collective mind of the audience=2E which of=20=

those changes it from purely "thing" and gives it "art"? there is, of=20
course, no answer, it's all about perspective=2E although i will grant tha=
t a=20
collective mind often decides a piece has a significance that was not=20
intended, but as that is the same thing as the collective decision to=20
MISremember an event (colombus discovered america, for example),=20
and that decision can change as the collective mind alters, it leaves us=20=

no closer to understanding the nature of the art itself=2E so perhaps the=20=

best definition we can give of a piece of art is "something which raises=20=

unanswerable questions" or "something which, in asking us to select a=20
position on it, causes us to alter ourselves in some way"=2E which i=20
concede is political in its way=2E
=2Edevon:

<Understanding art and music is not about understanding the person=20
who made
it=2E An artwork often has a political import which the creator was not
conscious of=2E There is no mystery about that=2E

Torben

---trommer wrote----

=2E=2E=2Eit seems to me that any act can be pigeonholed into some sort of=20=

agenda
by an outside observer, regardless of what the perpetrator's actual=20
motives
were=2E=2E=2E>

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