For those of you that don't know, duchamp was the man who turned the
art world upside down by submitting a urinal, signed and turned on it's
head to a salon. He was criticized at the time, what on earth was this?
it certainly wasn't art, as far as the experts of the time were
concerned. But what he did was EXTREMELY important, he established that
for something to be art, it need not exhibit skill or composition etc,
etc, but rather that art occurs as soon as an idea, or concept is
attached to anything, and thus given significance by a person. He opened
the doors for the abstract expressionist movement. Art has always been a
progressive opening of doors, burst through by people who at the time
were scoffed at as being "non-artists".
So how does this apply to our list?
Many people on the list seem to assert that their high notions of
composition, form etc. are what make music music, and that the
arrangement of sound must follow x and x and x rules. That's a load of
fucking bullshit. Music (and all art) occurs around us all the time,
there is music made by my fingers as they fly over the keyboard typing
this letter. You all would do well to get off your horses, humble
yourselves, and expand your minds to all possibilities. To make a
decision before a moment has occured neccesarily closes you to other
options. Get a clue.
In the words of the venerable Ralph Waldo Emmerson:
"Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds"
Peace to m3rck, #// and the infinity booty crizzew,
cdin
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