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Eno applies: > It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart.
by dleeftink 10mo ago
Eno applies:
> It's the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.
- 2b3a51 10mo agoAnd > "By the time a whole technology exists for something it probably isn't the most interesting thing to be doing."
- stephantul 10mo agoWhere did you get this from? Searching for it, in a weird irony I guess, just leads me back to this post.
- cryzinger 10mo agoI recognize it as a quote from A Year With Swollen Appendices, which is a great read even if you aren't an Eno fan (although I am, which admittedly makes me biased :P)
- stephantul 10mo agoThank you! I’ll check that out