Re: [microsound] toplap_manifesto

[vze26m98 <vze26m98@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/20/04, tobias c. van Veen said something like:

>I'm not sure who wrote this but it's exciting to see someone thinking
>about art seriously enough ..

Tobias-

The artists are a little more available on the SC3 lists...

>Kim -- isn't this opposite to what you wrote when you considered that
>spectacle of the stage (costumes etc of rock/pop) should be countered
>by reducing / redirecting the performance to the acousmatic?
>Under this manifesto, such a move would be considered obscurantist and
>thus dangerous.

"2. Those who add a spectacle in the form of extra-musical scenic action
to accompany the musical performance.  Influenced by the 'happenings'
which express the confusion of certain artists, these composers take
refuge in mimetics and disparate accurences and thus betray their very
limited confidence in pure music.  In fact they concede defeat for their
music in particular.

These two groups share a romantic attitude.   They believe in immediate
action and are not much concerned about its control by the mind.  But
since muscial action, unless it is to risk falling into trivial
improvisation, imprecision, and irresponsibility, imperiously demands
reflection, these groups are in fact denying music and take it outside
itself."

Iannis Xenakis



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