[microsound] 'that's edutainment'

[CraqueMat]

The tree metaphor is awesome, I definitely feel this way about the music 
I create. And I certainly approach listening with as much of this 
attitude as I can, just by letting it happen.

I've never been very good at coming up with some conceptual thing based 
on a highly philosophical starting point that breaks sonic ground. I 
think these kinds of artworks are very cool, but I suck at making them.

Over the years I've found that I make the best music when I don't know 
what I'm doing, and have no philosophical underpinning. It just happens. 
So while I really WANT to come up with some really awesomely rad 
conceptual art thing, it never happens. The music others find most 
inspired is often that which has the least planning.

Jason Wehmhoener wrote:
> I love this.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Damian Stewart <damian at frey.co.nz 
> <mailto:damian at frey.co.nz>> wrote:
>  
> 
>     and a another nice one from Bernhard Günter a few pages back:
> 
>     I wish to get away from the paradigm of music as language-like, the
>     aesthetics that believe music, or art in general, is a form of
>     communication. My favorite metaphor for explaining what I'm after is
>     a tree
>     in a meadow: the tree is just standing there, it's not a message for
>     you,
>     but looking at it, you may thinking about a lot of things, feel a lot of
>     things. ... When you associate things with what you hear,
>     visualizing this
>     or that, language gets back into the game and destroys the
>     possibility of
>     perceiving the existence of sound, its "being like this".
> 
> 
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