Ben,
It's all about perspective. For you it might seem intellectual, but to
someone else it might be emotional. There might be something very deep about
that nail to the artist who nailed it... maybe it represents an entire
emotion for him: his x-wife. Or maybe it just represents his frustrations
with society: a modern mirror. To you, it might represent a boring peice of
metal thrusted into a cardboard prefab wall. To me it might be
representative of the beauty of 'simplicity' and a message to see beauty in
all things... or to the museum it just might be the spot where that missing
painting was hanging!!!
=-)
p.s. I think you are missing context. You want someone to spell it out for
you. Are looking for a meaning, where there might not be one? It might be up
to you to find one... less be lost in the intellectual realm of the left
brain [or was it the right one? help me out here guys]. For I am sure that
others will see emotion where you have not. You can draw parallels form this
to all things too... but that would be off topic.
:P
Seb.
~Okay, I know this is gonna be a touchy subject, but here goes. I was
~recently complaining to a friend about 'Confield' and some of the more
~recent IDM releases. I was saying how the music seems to be
~coming more from
~the "brain" and not so much from the "heart" (I'm not talking
~about all IDM
~artists here or even just about Autechre). It seems to me that
~some in the
~genre are going much the same way as modern art. It's less
~about evoking
~emotion and more about making an ideological statement. Take,
~for example, a
~piece I saw in the Tate Modern the other day. A nail stuck in
~a wall (ie no
~canvas). Okay, it's briefly interesting, but not very lasting. I would
~compare a lot of the "grooveless" music (note the quote marks)
~in IDM to
~this type of art. I'm not saying it isn't interesting or
~emotion provoking
~(Confield=discomfort), but it won't go down in the annals of
~great music. I
~think that leading from the brain will be a short lived
~approach to this
~music because emotions are infinity more interesting to us as
~humans. In my
~opinion Amber is better than Confield for this very reason (to
~use Autechre
~as a comparison again). I'm not saying that music has to be emotionally
~hypercharged all the time, but a little a bit in-between would
~be nice. It
~can be clever and groovy at the same time. What do you folks think?
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