Systems & The Purpose of Sound
“Art is the exposure to the tensions and problems of a false world
such that man may endure exposing himself to the problems and tensions of the real world.”
- Morse Peckham
“Art is the exposure to the tensions and problems of a false world
such that man may endure exposing himself to the problems and tensions of the real world.”
- Morse Peckham
We evolved around Art because we need it. Biologically, we needed something like this to exist for us.
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
- Brian Eno
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
- Brian Eno
In the mid-40s I worked with a musician from India who came to study in the West, and she was alarmed about the influence that Western music was having on Indian traditions. She told me that the traditional reason for making a piece of music in India was “to quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences.” Meanwhile my friend Louis Harrison was reading a 16th-century English text and found the exact same reason given for writing a piece of music. Then I began to wonder: what is a quiet mind and what are divine influences?
- John Cage
- John Cage