Unaccompanied Music
What is to be said in the case of a re-recorded song, reinterpreted by the same artist – at a much later date? I am thinking of Randy Newman’s Songbook I for example.
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What is to be said in the case of a re-recorded song, reinterpreted by the same artist – at a much later date? I am thinking of Randy Newman’s Songbook I for example.
October 23, 2008
Today’s Important Thought: “We are still under the jurisdiction of the physics that ruled the dinosaurs.”
May 7, 2008
So, the light switch as postmodern! Typically, is a smoothed off ‘rocker’ switch. It does not protrude from the wall, it is a light switch without a specific click or position – no on or off; the switch position is unreadable, ambiguous. The act of examining the switch physically yields no information. It should be simple: but: on or… [Read more…]
November 22, 2007
One can see the popularity of wearing trainers as part of the common impulse, which we share in through a kind of cultural indavertence, and which can be seen with other things too, for getting back in touch with our instincts. Since we seem to be ‘out of touch’ with the body ways are sought of… [Read more…]
November 7, 2007
“nobody ever rioted for austerity” [George Monbiot, Heat.] Global warming is a postmodern thing. That is in that it is not a thing – seemingly – but a dilemma: an – ‘is it or isn’t it a thing?’ – thing. It finds its natural place in advertising (see Monbiot’s chapter ‘The Denial Industry’). There is no… [Read more…]
October 19, 2007
Auge’s Non-Places argues that the concept of place has ceased to have a context identifiable with the place itself. Out of South London, under the river via the Blackwall Tunnel up through the Lea Valley soon bowling through the maze of sunless flyovers and underpasses towards the M11, voyaging, the concrete triple lanes, the slab-sided walls patterned to a… [Read more…]
October 17, 2007
Call it the ”postmodern moment.” Is it true to say that it is to the instrument and not the thing in itself or the end in itself that the expression now most applies: It isn’t what it is -? That is, to what used once to be art’s territory, almost exclusively. Once, only art said this. Now (we might say)… [Read more…]
October 17, 2007
* The postmodern object is an object that isn’t one. * Like an advert. * A story that isn’t a story tells us a ‘story’. * “You are Number Six” – like the rest of us: he is not a person but an imposter among his fellow imposters. * “It does exactly what it says on the tin.” –… [Read more…]
October 16, 2007
Maybe it is possible to describe the essence of an advert … In so far as it is about using the viewer as imagination’s dupe rather than finding out the imagination from within (so to speak), so that the viewer becomes its instrument. It functions as way of knowing the world, in this sense, since in this form… [Read more…]
October 16, 2007
Motherless, Fatherless The object of one’s affection, through whom one’s world – effectively the world – was sustained, is gone; he or she has been revealed to be an instrument of other forces, foreign to all affection. Would it be absurd to look at tv in this way? Specifically, for children. Spiritually, a child is a fully… [Read more…]
October 28, 2008
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