The Arts stretch across a continuum ranging from absolute plasticity to absolute rhythmicity. This is a thread on my aesthetic theory. Buckle up, western man.pic.twitter.com/YYsVPvOiy2
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The Arts stretch across a continuum ranging from absolute plasticity to absolute rhythmicity. This is a thread on my aesthetic theory. Buckle up, western man.pic.twitter.com/YYsVPvOiy2
The most difficult attribute to manifest in a medium is the one that lies opposite on the continuum. The greatest sculptures are marked by a sense of rhythm arising out of stasis, and the greatest music is that which attempts to plasticize the immaterial
Wouldn't you say that this is exactly what makes counterpoint so interesting, that is to say, the almost architectural organization of sound?
Yes, in primitive music the rhythm is intoxicating, the listener is absorbed by the 'spectacle' of the passage of time. Contrast this with Bach who attempts to pull higher forms from out of the sea of pulsation, almost manic desire to signify something *beyond* music
I have attempted, in the fifth movement of my Divertimento for winds in C, to write deeply rhythmic counterpoint. There's almost no melody, it's only rhythm & the texture of counterpoint. https://soundcloud.com/ulysse-bouchard/divertimento-en-ut-1 … It starts at 23:13 (should have put more silence between movements)
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