Re: [microsound] death of monoculture

[Paulo Mouat <paulo.mouat@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Damian Stewart <damian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> by assuming that we listen to music as individuals, it objectifies music. it
> turns it into these precisely defined units that we can consume based on
> conscious choices we have made as rational agents living in a world of
> individuals.

Absolutely not. We always listen as individuals; I might love piano
music, whereas you don't. I might like composer X, you might prefer
composer Y. What I see in the piano music of composer X, you don't see
at all, to the extent that you simply don't like it. This has nothing
to do with conscious choices--I don't *choose* to like X, as much as
you don't choose to dislike that composer.

> but this isn't how i do music.

Keyword: "I".

> it may sound corny but i learnt a lot about how
> different people operate by learning to love Radiohead (which i used to
> despise, for all the wrong reasons).

Wasn't this a conscious, music-objectifying choice, if I use your line
of reasoning?

> i don't want to listen to something that is just beautiful - i want to
> listen to something that is beautiful that other people also find beautiful.
> ideally lots of other people. then i can feel connected to other people, and
> then i can feel i can more operate like the kind of over-evolved social
> monkey that, at the root, we all are.

Let's face it, opinions, tastes and approaches differ among people.
You want something; other people might not want it. If this is not
individuality then what is?

If we truly were in a monoculture, there wouldn't be microsound or
experimentalism. There would be an ever-unchanging canon of art.

//p
http://www.interdisciplina.org/00.0

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