So many good parts but this bit from Sean is probably my favorite:
*Sean: It’s funny that you mentioned Tim Morton. I’m really into nature.
Well, everyone is on a fundamental level, but I feel like I understand the
things about nature that I like. That you can walk through a forest, and
you can’t possibly take it all in, it’s not about that. It’s not the way
you’re supposed to engage with a forest at all. You walk through and you
have your own journey through the space, and you maybe stop, probably more
than once, and you might look at things or smell things or just feel what
it’s like there and the way that the air moves there. There’s so much there
to experience that it can be quite overwhelming, especially for someone
like me.I know I always mention Lynch and I am a huge Lynch fan. It’s just
an easy reference point to communicate this. It’s very difficult to
understand a Lynch film, but you can watch it and feel that you understood
it. It might be very difficult to put into words later what the meaning of
it is, but you feel on some level that you understand it.I feel the same
with Tarkovsky as well, I feel the same watching Stalker [1979 film by
Tarkovsky], that there’s just so much in Stalker, and yet there’s so
little. You couldn’t write down all the things that are happening. I mean,
it just wouldn’t make any sense to do that. And there’s always going to be
more there than you’re able to take in in one sitting. Ambiguity is one of
these things that I’m really drawn to in all kinds of art. Where I don’t
really feel like a need to have one specific explanation that kind of
narrows it down to a sentence. I feel like if you can describe a piece of
work that way then the work’s probably not got much for me.I feel like
music actually can’t be described in that way either. I think this is a
thing for most music, not just what we’re doing. There’s a kind of denial
around the idea of what music is and how it functions, right? I’m quite
happy putting out loads and loads of music, where you’re not really sure
what’s happening. I don’t think you need to take everything in in order to
have a good experience with the thing. It’s a bit like driving a car,
nobody sees everything that they’re driving past, or like just riding a
bike somewhere or going on a downhill or something, in those experiences
there’s just way too much information for you to consciously process, but
you’re still experiencing it even though it isn’t really possible to
understand it in totality.*
On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 8:17 AM Chris Taylor <christaylor415@gmail.com>
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> https://nialler9.com/autechre-conversation-about-music-art-funk-and-emotion-interview/
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> Great stuff as per usual
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