Re: [microsound] [ot] Derrida

[Bill Jarboe <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 1/15/04 8:41 PM, tobias c. van Veen at tobias@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

 
> [snipp.ed]
> 
> To be honest, I think others in many other forums can elaborate much better
> than I can & I am not sure this is the place for it. I've incorporated
> deconstructive thought--or thought as deconstruction, as flow--into all of
> my work and constantly make references to it here in the processing of
> thought on this very list. I'd rather not debate the apparent nihilism of
> the theory, for by the very force of the unending processes of thought as
> affirmation and process in and of its haunted selves, selves as ghostly
> echoes from that other realm anyone encounters--or fails to touch--when
> delving through the archives of music, memories that carry with us like
> tunes or refrains, sudden munchings on madeleines, pop song fantasies, or
> techno concussions, the cryptic turns of language, theory, and art into
> sound and music, like the numerical beauty of max/msp's algorithmic
> generators, or the cold kiss of a lost lover's eyebeams, the linearity yet
> heightened expectancy of a debate on these subjects would be all the more
> trite were it to actually arrive as it is and is expected to be.
> 
> -- It's very fashionable, as always, to throw down the diss.
> - It's very easy to do.
> 
> tV

 Yes. 

 For me deconstructivism has been a way of dealing with, or confronting
death. A way of understanding mortality and immortality by taking apart
one's understanding in order to understand how it functions.
 -rather like taking apart a watch to see what makes it tick.

 In terms of music-making I see deconstruction as relating to rock music
more than digital aesthetics. Once when I was trying some deconstruction of
rock aesthetics a friend of mine turned me onto Arto Lindsay's 'Aggregates
1-26' and that seemed to address such questions as "How far can one go
before it ceases to be a song?" "What is a song?" "Where does something
cease to be a groove?"A group setting seems to be much more vulnerable since
everyone playing is experiencing it while it happens (sound) and it's also
such a public statement.

  People, including myself often view deconstruction as a sort of
loser/suicide career move which was probably partly what the old Beck song
was about ; though it was popified enough to be ineffectual.

 Many great tunes start as deconstructions.


    anyway... 

 


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