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

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

> >I think it is a big
> > mistake to decide that sound has no meaning. I
> think
> > it is more true to say there is always the
> potential
> > to become meaningful.
> 
> But the idea that sound has the "potential" to
> become meaningful
> assumes already that it isn't  meaningful outside of
> its potential,
> which is exactly my point.


clear, but that's not exactly what you said and the
drift of your statements accumulated in the direction
of what i find to be the ultimately unjustifiable and
and unsupportable notion that sounds don't have any
meaning. mine is a political stance that seeks to
empower sound and those who do not feel yet that sound
can say something outside of being recognized by a
powerful elite, which, being driven to that
conclusion, is the same "cultural" cul-de-sac all
post-modernism ends up in: stale academic
conceptualism. if you only have culture as the final
arbiter then an individual who says something
different has nothing else to do but to declare a
break with culture. not only popular artists of the
seventies did this but also avant-gardists of that era
were more populist (bueys and pasolini for example,
although i have my own critiques of their behaviour as
well). what is disturbing most is that today's
avant-gardist does not even try to make such a break.
they are in with the institution. if you bill or
anyone would like to read a a review i have written of
the cartsen nicolai installation here at the neu
nationale gallerie, i may be willing to post it, as
the above are all concerns that enter into my thought
over it's potential meaninglessness. 

--Jeff Gburek






		
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