| So, anyone got any interesting stuff to tell us or what?! Err...
"The Artcyclopedia (http://www.artcyclopedia.com) describes minimalism as 'a style of art in which objects are stripped down to their elemental, geometric form, and presented in an impersonal manner'. Robert Hood's Minimal Nation EP (Axis, 1994) is as pure as it gets, discharging solidly 3-dimensional shapes into the sonicsphere. Listening to Rhythm, you meditate on its building blocks of melody and rhythm, and find in them sonic paradoxes worthy of Escher's drawings. "From the underlying premise that music exists independently of humankind, minimalism attempts to strip away subjectivity and assume natural forms, thus attaining ultimate truth and ultimate beauty. This naked, quantum truth turns out to be more complex than the higher-order, multi-layered introspections fashioned by the ultra-conscious mind. A (hastily concocted but purpose-serving) existential riddle for you: what is a more complex concept - a piece of wood or a house built of pieces of the same wood?" (from http://www.sagant.freeserve.co.uk/jukebox302.htm ) Maybe not interesting, but hopefully a bit of a diversion! Brendan
