Re: [microsound] Chuck

[David Powers <cyborgk@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/27/06, Xdugef <info@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It would also be easier to build the ship outside the bottle but people
> still build ships in bottles for the challenge. ;-0

> Adrian

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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