Re: [microsound] miles of styles of philosophes

[jeff gburek <tsazmaniac@xxxxxxxxx>]

yes, i find sense of wonder related to beauty...but
beauty has been destroyed, related to the deceptive,
the bearer of illusions...so that we can only invoke
beauty if we are going to deal with something that is
almost its opposite

--jg
--- Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David Powers wrote:
> 
> > Emotion only exists in terms of probability. You
> can encode a set of
> > gestures into a piece of music, that (given a
> culturally homogenous
> > group with known conditioning) has a high
> probability of provoking an
> > emotional response. However, if you played the
> music for someone who
> > lacked the relevant cultural context and
> conditioning, there would be
> > no emotional response.
> 
> Does this mean there is no such thing as universal
> art?
> 
> ... Is the experience of beauty an emotion? I
> believe it is, but I was 
> having an interesting discussion with my flatmate
> the other morning 
> where she was saying that she didn't think that it
> was.
> 
> I wonder if that means that in order to describe
> microsound as 
> 'emotional' one has to broaden one's idea about what
> an emotion is. 
> Defenders of scifi writing are sometimes in the same
> boat, finding 
> themselves having to argue that sense-of-wonder is
> an emotion, just to 
> counter claims that scifi is unemotional.
> 
> -- 
> Damian Stewart
> +64 27 305 4107
> 
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> 
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