Re: [microsound] being 'political' in non-verbal music

[John Nowak <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 23, 2005, at 7:34 PM, Jon wrote:

> > Well, the answer would then be no. Nor could you create a  
> > sentence, or an act, or a symbol or anything else that could be  
> > identified as political, or anything. If you remove all the  
> > "programming" (and by this I assume you mean the ability to  
> > reference and compare one experience with another), then nothing  
> > means anything and I fail to see the point of even asking about it.
>
> goddam -- kevin -- thank you.  i agree completely.  i'm sick of  
> constant "art in a vacuum" to-ing and fro-ing.  context/programming  
> - it's simple and fundamental to the concept of meaning.  any  
> linguist will tell you.

The reason you hear so much "art in a vacuum" to-ing and fro-ing, I  
suspect, is that people do not want to believe their personal art is  
context dependent, and hence, can never be "timeless". This causes  
feelings of unease regarding one's own sense of mortality, hence the  
large amount of warbling sine wave academic faux-timeless crap  
created in denial (or in spite of) of the truth. Just an idea of course.

- John

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