At 16:32 18.05.2001 -0700, you wrote:
I really ask myself what the fundamental level of any art is. If you take visual arts into consideration you have artists like Josef Beuys and Salvador Dali for example, both contributing to modern art at their time in the most opposite way imaginable. It is all art. The same thing to modern music:
Steve Reich and autechre. Very different in style but to some extend parallel.
So what is the basic idea of art in general?
I think each of us has to answer that question to himself.
An overall definition is quite difficult, I think. What is art to one could be junk to another. One thing all art has in common is the fact that it reaches public somehow. (with visual means in the museum, in galleries and at home, or as an auditive presentation on vinyl or CD - everywhere music is played for dance, background ambience etc.)
(Any) Art cannot be IDM, I think.
There are too many manifestations of art anyhow. And not all art makes you dance I'm afraid.
But to me all IDM is art because it does something to people.
Even if music evokes your disgust it lets you feel something and this is what I think art is all about. Anything that makes me think different from the everyday train of thoughts is art to me, could even be TV commercials or elevator jazz(in the most extreme case ;)).
The most important aspect of art is, if it is interesting somehow.
What made Man Rays "ready mades" iteresting was the fact that he put everyday things in a completely different surrounding. Same to Matthew Herbert using all kind of sounds and noise in, and as music. To me there must be something different in it, something new, creative, weird, intelligent or whatever feeling or thought you could imagine...
And it does not matter if I like it or not to make it art.
Hmm, even Adams posting might be art to me because I gave it a thought...
Maybe this not at all too plausible but this is what I think personally ;).
Best wishes to all of you,
Peter
quoted 2 lines No, really - Isn't all art, when you boil it down to
>No, really - Isn't all art, when you boil it down to
>its most fundamental level, just IDM in disguise?
...feel free to visit:
http://www.peter-spiess.de/
"After silence, that which comes nearest
to expressing the inexpressible is Music" (A.Huxley)...
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