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

[Derek Mason <derek.mason@xxxxxxxxx>]

How can one define an emotion?

You can't.  You can describe the action, or how it has affect/effected you.  Poets try to describe the feeling, the sensation but can only attempt to describe the picture/ to create a picture to better understand.

So, through music can we discribe the emotion of summer?  The feeling one gets through memory?




----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Ponto" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: microsound <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [microsound] being 'political' in non-verbal music
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:40:29 -0700

> 
> On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:56 AM, Bill Ashline wrote:
> > The only way you get the
> > hell out of the way when a bus sounds its horn is because you've been
> > programmed to read that sound as a warning and an alert.  That's
> > culture, of course, but without that, it's just another sound.  So
> > back to the original question, can you create a sound that contains an
> > inherent politics outside of a discursive form that identifies it as
> > such?  I have yet to see one solitary example that demonstrates such a
> > possibility.
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> k
> 
> 
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