Re: [microsound] [ot] Derrida

[Bill Jarboe <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 1/15/04 11:52 PM, Trace Reddell at treddell@xxxxxx wrote:

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> From: "Bill Jarboe" <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>> Many great tunes start as deconstructions.
> 
> I would interpret Derrida to say that ALL great tunes start as
> deconstructions. I get neither the sense of "death-bed" anxiety as an impetus
> for deconstruction nor a sense of the "loser". Rather, the action of
> deconstruction is what any living organism DOES in order to exist in its
> environment. Lefebvre writes that a living organism has neither meaning nor
> existence when considered in isolation from its extensions and from the space
> that it reaches and produces. All organisms are reflected and refracted (that
> is, deconstructed) in the changes that they wreak on their environment or
> ambience.

 Yes. That sounds right. I did write'confronting' , didn't I?
> 
> Derrida is so playful, and open to the multiverse of human experience and
> being. I've never understood how he came to be associated with such a dire and
> dour cycle of inward, self-consuming literary crit. He's one of the most
> life-affirming litcrit writers/activists I've ever encountered. And the most
> microsonic. "Plato's Pharmacy" is one of the top 5 microsound works ever
> written. Talk about sample-based granular literary synthesis!

  I don't know'Plato's Pharmacy'. Is it by Derrida? Is it a book?Is it a
minidisc?

  You see, I wasn't writing about Derrida exactly, more about something
rather obvious in music which helped me get an idea of what deconstruction
might be...or could be.I read Derrida ('Epitaphs', at least) later.I did
find it really life affirming ; super life-affirming, actually.
> 
> -=t
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> 

                      (Bill)
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