I remember a fascinating moment in "Ninotchka" in which Greta Garbo
(in her role as a Soviet envoy to the West) tells her just-seduced
Western counterpart who's about to turn on the radio: "No, honey!
Let's play music just for ourselves!" and pulls out a record.
Peculiar moment: from the commons to the private.
But there is a point to it being somehow "out there": sound, music,
anything.
Btw, the film is cool: can't remember dates or directors, but it is a
curious mix between "Metropolis" and a Marx Bros. comedy. Highly
recommendable.
K.
On 30/04/2006, at 20:09, Allan Revich wrote:
Disease of the will - or the willing of dis-ease?
Either way it afflicts me too Ann.
Allan Are
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Very interesting, yes! It presumes a kind of purposeful inquiring
search
that I mostly seem not to have. Radio survives, I think, because
we like
being ambushed by small bits of diverse things to hear. I have
boxed sets
too and seldom listen to them because somehow "I want to hear X"
occurs to
me much less than "I want to hear something. Surprise me."
More and more I feel that to surrender my own responsibility to
choose this
or that is what I want. I want the gift of others' choice.
Is this some disease of the will, or is it more common than I think?
AK
On 4/30/06 4:45 AM, "Roger Stevens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Interesting post
thanks
On 2006 Apr 28, at 4:08 AM, Kamen Nedev wrote:
Hmmm, you have a point here. CDs suck. Period. The thing is, I'm
not into CDs, I'm into the idea of "publication", "edition", or
whatever you might call it. I don't care if it's a CD or a USB
stick or a vinyl record, as long as I get this idea of an
"edition". In any case, for most of us, ephemeral netcasting and
netlabels (or, as in your case, even our own resources) seem to be
the most accessible path.
well, you know...you go along with the formats
in order to conduct the business of music.
As they change, so do the needs of distribution channels.
BUT when it comes to personal access,
I've been increasingly interested in anything that
has a deep time-bottom and doesn't have to be compiled
in a linear manner.
I'm surrounded by box/Bach sets that take the form of gargantuan
proportions:
182 CDs of Bach...50 CDs of Merzbow...50 CDs of Klaus Schulze, etc.
and just last week I got all squishy and excited
when this explicated anthem from Prinzendorf that is the 51 disc
"Orgien Mysterien Theater" (Orgies and Mysteries Theater) of Hermann
Nitsch
(of Viennese Aktionist fame) shows up with thick books/boots and
poster.
So I have to ask: why not just send me a small hard drive?
The books/scores have a nicer feel than little slip covers around
discs,
but the sound could've been just as easily sent on a keychain
harddrive.
So, I think of a single Terrabyte for my work.
The idea of making it one long work that uses
40 years of pieces dropped inside at various points.
One of the things that I've learned and've appreciated
during my studies with Stockhausen over these past few years
is this idea of one large work (his "Licht - 29 hours long)
as a ground by which various smaller solo or group ensemble
pieces can be extracted for performance.
In my case, it's somewhat the reverse where individual pieces are
interlaced into a whole that constantly/consistently grows.
Need a solo 29 minute work?
OK, let me play the part of the Metzgermeister
and just slice some off for you.
Would you like that wrapped?
R
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