On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Ryan Richard Whitehead wrote:
quoted 4 lines ever stare at a blank page/canvas/sheet of tablature and feel overwhelmed?
> ever stare at a blank page/canvas/sheet of tablature and feel overwhelmed?
> Schoenburg did--he pushed tonality as far as he could, and when it broke
> stopped composing for several years. he spit out short bursts, pieces
> trying to self-organize into 'Music.'
The Schoenberg I like best are the very short freely-atonal pieces for
piano. They are from the period you describe, when the old models for
organization had fallen apart, and a new set of models hadn't been
established.
quoted 3 lines how to motivate
> how to motivate
> beginning, ending? only as a struggle to put into form, to
> mediate, to transmit through a medium, to map, a landform.
That was exactly the struggle. Once you ditch the old rules completely,
you're on your own. That can be a problem for the listener. People have
trouble enjoying a symphony sometimes because they don't understand sonata
form (primary theme, secondary theme, variation/development, recap).
People have trouble with hip-hop or Detroit/Berlin techno because the
action is not where they expect it to be. Rhythm is a very powerful
organizational foundation which can permit limitless possibilities on top
of it.
quoted 3 lines limitlessness
> limitlessness
> is implacable--it contains no truth, permits everything, and is the
> ultimater horror.
Not at all. You seem like you might be the type who insists that art will
inevitably return to traditional forms because the avant-garde is a bunch
of claptrap from which nobody can take any meaning. Communication and
meaning are possible, and there is still room for that, but art is also
developing beyond expression of truth and meaning, and into pure sight,
sound, and substance.
--Mark
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