motel de moka

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To be alive

To be alive: not just the carcass
But the spark.
That's crudely put, but…

If we're not supposed to dance,
Why all this music?
- Gregory Orr .


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Music resembles a language. Expressions such as musical idiom, musical intonation, are not simply metaphors. But music is not identical with language. The resemblance points to something essential, but vague. - T.W. Adorno

'Pleasure' then should instead be taken here as an adverbial determination of the involved awareness of the free play of the cognitive faculties. So it is not the perceptual and imaginative activity concerning the object but rather the pleasant awareness of such free activities that constitutes our judgement of taste. For a judgement of taste the subjective feeling of pleasure or displeasure is the very manner in which our inner sense 'correctly' receives the aesthetic excellence of an object. We recognize it because we want to carry on with the involved free play. -The Ideal Aesthetic Experience



3.1415 92653 58979 32384 62643 38327 95028 84197 16939 93751 ... -Pi

Since the new architecture permits no images (such as paintings or sculptures as separate elements) its purpose of creating a harmonious whole with all essential means is evident from the outset. In this way, every architectural element contributes to the attainment on a practical and logical basis of a maximum of plastic expression, without any disregard of the practical demands.-Towards a plastic architecture

Our nature demands the evidence of uniformity, as that emphasizes the impressions, making them easier to grasp and enjoy; but our nature also craves a certain degree of variety, to counteract the monotony which must result from too persistent uniformity. When the elements of Unity and Variety are sensibly matched, evenly balanced, the form is good. On the other hand, a composition is formless, or faulty in form, when the component parts are jumbled together without regard to proportion and relation. -Lesson In Music Form

The signatum always referred, as to its referent, to a res, to an entity created or at any rate first thought and spoken, thinkable and speakable, in the eternal present of the divine logos and specifically in its breath. If it came to relate to the speech of a finite being (created or not; in any case of an intracosmic entity) through the intermediary of a signans, the signatum had an immediate relationship with the divine logos which thought it within presence and for which it was not a trace. -Jacques Derrida


-Steve Crane

Awake or asleep
in a grass hut,
what I pray for is
to bring others across
before myself
-Dogen

The bulk of the promotional effort at every record company today is expended on "NEW MATERIAL" . . . the latest and the greatest of whatever the cocaine-tweezed A&R; Brass has decided to inflict on everybody. More often than not, these 'aesthetic decisions' result in mountains of useless vinyl/cardboard artifacts which cannot be sold at any price, and are therefore returned for disposal and recycling. These mistakes are expensive. -Frank Zappa


-Freemish Crate

there he was in the very same room from the window of which he had fallen, there were the same children, the same playthings, standing on the table, and the pretty castle with the elegant little dancer at the door; she still balanced herself on one leg, and held up the other, so she was as firm as himself. It touched the tin soldier so much to see her that he almost wept tin tears, but he kept them back. He only looked at her and they both remained silent. -Hans Christian Andersen

"What we play is life."-Louis Armstrong



Pop is not about individual self-expression or aesthetic innovation. It gives the public what it wants, not what it "needs." The very idea of giving the public what it "needs" presupposes someone -- a professor, a lawgiver critic in the Partisan Review mold, or a mandarin composer -- who will decide what that something is. -Dial "M" for Musicology

We are still living under the reign of logic, but the logical processes of our time apply only to the solution of problems of secondary interest. The absolute rationalism which remains in fashion allows for the consideration of only those facts narrowly relevant to our experience. Logical conclusions, on the other hand, escape us. -Le Manifeste du Surréalisme


-ubiquity_zh
The central idea, however, is that music must be connected. Music is often explained from a musicians point of view often with the written score, but not much attention has been paid to the casual listener. "Can a casual listener appreciate the differences between compositions that are well-untied and those that are not?" -musicalbomb


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