Re: [microsound] music is the ultimate incorruptible

[|| sirr || Paulo Raposo <sirr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To quote Deleuze:
"We do not lack communication. On the contrary, we have too much of it. We
lack creation. We lack resistance to the present."

Best,
paulo






on 3/15/06 2:25 PM, Derek Mason at [ADRESS] wrote:

> David,
> 
> Well spoken.  I could not agree more.  I have been both listener and composer
> with a recording.  Language is music with a tempo and rhythm.  It is our
> distinction of various sounds placed together that determine communication.
> Hearing and knowing the direction of the train, you know it is the one you
> need to get.  The sound is interpreted as communication.  The baby cries and
> the mother/father responds.
> 
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "David Powers" <cyborgk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> If you as a listener, listen to something as 'music," it is music
>> within that context. The question of communication is irrelevant.
>> Actually, "communication" is more properly the realm of car horns
>> and ambulance sirens, and not of music. Music is interesting
>> precisely because it refuses to communicate. It's ambiguous.
>> 
>> Consider the case of a field recording:
>> 
>> Scenario 1: A train is screeching along over my head. I'm late for
>> work and in a hurry. I don't hear any music. Nothing is being
>> communicated. It's just random noise that happens to be occurring.
>> 
>> Scenario 2: Someone walks by with their mini-disc player, records
>> the very same train, and releases it on a CD-R entitled "the
>> Sublime Sounds of Chicago". I buy the CD and listen to it at home.
>> I hear the very same train as in Scenario 1, but now I hear it as
>> music. I think to myself, "the sounds of Chicago really are
>> sublime."
>> 
>> The sounds in 1 and 2 are the same (ignoring the limitations of
>> recording technology for the moment). Only my perception as
>> listener has changed. However, at no point did the actual creator
>> of the sound, the TRAIN, intend to communicate.
>> 
>> ~David
>> 
> 
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