I love this.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Damian Stewart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:damian@frey.co.nz">damian@frey.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
and a another nice one from Bernhard Günter a few pages back:<br>
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I wish to get away from the paradigm of music as language-like, the<br>
aesthetics that believe music, or art in general, is a form of<br>
communication. My favorite metaphor for explaining what I'm after is a tree<br>
in a meadow: the tree is just standing there, it's not a message for you,<br>
but looking at it, you may thinking about a lot of things, feel a lot of<br>
things. ... When you associate things with what you hear, visualizing this<br>
or that, language gets back into the game and destroys the possibility of<br>
perceiving the existence of sound, its "being like this".<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div><br>