Re: [microsound] Chuck

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David,

I don't really know how to take this statement "I don't value
challenges, in themselves". To each his own.. I certainly wouldn't
expect everyone to feel this way wether you are talking about art or
anything else. I find living is pretty challenging on it's own let
alone making art so I gotta get my kicks where I can... if it's by
challenging myself wether or not the outcome is heralded as brilliant
or horrible I don't really care.

I went with Perl because it was familiar so I did not set myself up for
too much of a challenge. I could have tried programming in C if I
wanted to hang myself. I am also familiar with Csound, PD and Max. I
choose Perl for the afore mentioned reasons of working with the theme
of forcing hardware or software not designed to make sound ..to make
sound or to make soudn differently than it was intended.

I certainly wasn't implying that doing things this way made the work
more aesthetically pleasing or meaningful. But at the same time it's
undeniable that process and technology has not driven change in art and
music.

Adrian


--- David Powers <cyborgk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't value challenges, in themselves; however, there working
> within
> strict limitations is a really productive technique for some artists.
> I think it creates tension in an artwork. It is, perhaps, a
> substitute
> for the tension that used to exist between the socially given genres
> (sonata, symphony, etc.) and the individual's artistic vision. With
> the fragmentation of culture, artists now often create their own
> rules, not to simply follow them, but rather in order to struggle
> against them.
> 
> Schoenberg's 12-tone method of composition could be viewed as an
> early
> example of this. Though it's rather bizarre, to me, that Schoenberg
> tried to use classical forms with 12-tone content, as if the very
> existence of the tone row did not demand it's own form. Webern was
> much more advanced in creating overall forms that matched the logic
> of
> the 12-tone compositional method.
> 
> Of course, the aesthetic meaning of struggling against a challenge a
> composer chooses individually, might be very different than the
> struggle of an artist working within a socially given set of norms.
> 
> Also,  that a given work was difficult, or a challenge to create,
> does
> not make the end result aesthetically meaningful per se.
> 
> ~David
> 


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