Re: [microsound] miles of styles of philosophes

[dr144@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ian Reddy)]

>one thing about certain kinds of sound, when they hit
>you, when you are alone, for example, this perosnal
>experience, when you hear something cool, that you
>dont hear any hype about beforehand, and it creates
>this separation from alienation, this curiously
>numinous bubble, albeit momentary, until someone else
>says, oh, you're listening to that, didnt you hear the
>really great first album, or someone say its crap and
>you no longer feel intimate with it even if you dont
>care what someone else thinks. what the blogger guy
>says makes sense in terms of emotional range only. is
>all digital music in a sense governed by an irony
>(related to a high level of self-consciousness) that
>doesnt allow for the feelings such as joni mitchell
>might sing about? does the full range of human emotion
>demand words or demand the discarding of words?
>anyway, its about your own fantasy formations, your
>wildest imaginations, isnt it. what you desire. 

I think that in art, emotion is something either projected
onto the work or it is something acted out by the performer.
No work of art is a raw emotional outburst - that's impossible
as art and music are obviously mediated through the intellect
and already existing cultural forms.  I suggest that Joni Mitchel is
performing her emotions through song.  Also certain sounds are
culturally constructed as being connected to certain emotions (such as the
connection of low droning sounds to feelings of gloom) and the artist
often exploits these connections or we simply project them onto a
work.  So....in brief I do think that art can provoke an emotional
response BUT I also think the emotion we experience is drastically
different from the emotion we speak of as being present in art, and
probably not the same thing at all.


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