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David Westling
Joined: Jan 16, 2007 Posts: 41 Location: Chicago USA
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seraph
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 12:37 am Post subject:
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David Westling wrote: | In this reactionary time I am on constant lookout for escape routes. They must be pathways to the outside, not merely towards the outskirts in some roundabout fashion. And then you are outside. Only then is the sunrise visible. |
I agree. My only concern would be not to end up as Icarus: the son of Daedalus, who escaped from Crete using wings made by his father but was killed when he flew too near the sun and the wax attaching his wings melted.
I mean: the risk is to be so far out to disappear. Am I making myself clear? _________________ homepage - blog - forum - youtube
Quote: | Don't die with your music still in you - Wayne Dyer |
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David Westling
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:09 am Post subject:
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That is the risk one runs when one creates for the ideal public rather than doing what one thinks is going to "go over". Then the danger becomes the failure to divine those psychic states that could claim some form of universality even in an improved mental and spiritual world. The idiolect has to have some way of getting beyond itself. Somehow I've convinced myself I am successful in doing this. It's a mater of achieving a valid extrapolation from work one admires that tends in the same direction. Oh, is that all. |
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bachus
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:57 am Post subject:
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David Westling wrote: | That is the risk one runs when one creates for the ideal public rather than doing what one thinks is going to "go over". |
False dichotomy, or am I missing something? Isn't a third option to create music simply for the innate value it has for one's own being--its value to a "public" of some sort being a matter for others to deal with? _________________ The question is not whether they can talk or reason, but whether they can suffer. -- Jeremy Bentham |
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David Westling
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:47 pm Post subject:
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Well, these elements can be tricky to negotiate. I'm with Duchamp, though, when he says "the spectator completes the work of art." I use my judgment solely when it comes to deciding what gets included, and I do believe it is in some significant degree just to hear oneself sing that artists create art, it has to be. If I didn't treat it as a rendezvous, though, my estimation of its significance would diminish a great deal. It's for the other without in any way using the other's yardstick, so to speak. |
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