Wednesday, September 01, 2004
About Me
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- Name: Jay Thomas
- Location: San Francisco, CA,
email: badwithtitles at gmail dot com
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- Hypnopompia
- a quote from Oppen, a break/an ending . . .
- Abductors threaten to kill journalist Jill Carroll...
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- is there anybody out/in there?
- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project
- pangrammaticon's birthday (+1)
- swift report: god denies links to pat robertson
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7 Comments:
That's really interesting. Utterly anxiogenic.
Thanks for the comment. Anxiogenic = generates anxiety?
Yes, generating amxiety, And the reason is probably can be several:
1. Even despite the alteration, the perception of the instruments used might generate a sense of unexpected incongruousness compared to 'normality'
2. Music is also the result of pauses, no pauses here a continuum
3. Contrast with the daily acoustic experience in most cases. Probably only some industrial sound could compare, but one would generally not hear instrument.
Just a few reasons that could provide a sense that something unknown, unexpected is occurring. And the unknow, the unexpected can be associated to fear. Thus anxiety.
But one more thing this sense of "unknown" is couple to the "known" (the type of sound). This surely reminds what Freud said of the term "heimlich", to explain his theories.
If you are not familiar with this, I found something here (though I have not read the whole article):
http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5735
Opps, lots of typos in my comment, I just realize. Did not check it!
I would just like to add that your texts, elaborated with the macros you have created, appear to go in the same direction of the music, in a sense: combination of known and unknown, displacement, breaches open for incongruity to enter or ooze in. Which is a bit what abstract art, or non naturalistic art, is about too.
Joe, thanks so much for the thoughtful and insightful observations. Gotta make this quick, 'cause my internet access won't stay up for long, but what you say about the familiar/unfamiliar is often something I'm after (in both writing and music/sound art), so it's great to get that feedback.
I find that sound art (as opposed to music in the traditional sense) often induces a vertigo-inducing uncanniness -- one has the sense of being thrown (forgive the Heidegger-ease) into a field of presence which, while actually present, is neverthelss utterly alien/Other. No sound artist exploits this better, in my opinion, than Francisco Lopez -- the first time I went to one of his concerts, I was overcome with such profound and primal terror that I could barely keep myself in the room -- and the second time (yes, I went back for more) it was the opposite - pure bliss, ecstacy, utterly outside of myself. Anyway, just thought I'd mention it in case you ever see mention of him -- being stationed in Spain, I think he performs more often in Europe than in the US. Gotta stop rambling now, in hopes this post will actually make it to the blog . . .
Thanks for mentioning Lopez, who I don't know, but I am now curious to check him out.
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