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> Today, our means of synthesizing sound, imagery and even intelligble content I think dwarf those to which Cage was ever exposed. I think Cage would've been t
by 0xADADA 10y ago
> Today, our means of synthesizing sound, imagery and even intelligble content I think dwarf those to which Cage was ever exposed.
I think Cage would've been totally unimpressed with our technologic "mastery" of the control of sound. His work revealed that the control of the structure of sound was approaching a cul-de-sac (hence his boredom with Tschaikowsky/Bruckner/Stravinsky) and therefore a very limiting perspective on what is beautiful/emotive or even what it means to be "music".
- arketyp 10y agoI agree, and I was hinting at that dissonance by saying intelligible content. But I also think we find ourselves today in a post-postmodern era. The promise of deconstruction never delivered and the allure of metaphysics and the structures persisted, in the face of it all. So we find ourselves chained in a truamatized relationship where perhaps the only option is to try to rejuvenate a forgotten romance, taking lessons from the excursions.