Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:36 pm
you are something. i often forget where i learned "most" of my life-lessons from - jazz. then you remind me...
in art or design i'd talk about "oppositing" - meaning the simple act of doing the opposite of what anyone else is doing. if they're fast - go slow. if they're big, be small. if they're straight ahead, don't be... etc
so parker in 1946 is playing the musical equivalent of bored and laughing (at the same time - no simple idea). bored and laughing is "contradiction" in postmodern theory. one example from jacques lacan (french psychoanlyst and critical theorist): "the unconscious is the discourse of the other"... then when talking about how this applies in therapy, he adds "the subject first talks about himself without talking to you, then he talks to you without talking about himself. When he is able to talk to you about himself, the analysis is over."
musical performance is a form of therapy spoken out loud. the unconscious freely expresses anything it chooses. when the unconscious stops talking the "therapy" is over - either someone else starts "talking", or there's a structured passage (composition or arrangement) which creates a segue.
you might like what george lewis has written comparing john cage and charlie parker as two musicians interested in "real-time" music. it's worth a read. http://www.4shared.com/file/92896573/cd ... dcage.html
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in art or design i'd talk about "oppositing" - meaning the simple act of doing the opposite of what anyone else is doing. if they're fast - go slow. if they're big, be small. if they're straight ahead, don't be... etc
so parker in 1946 is playing the musical equivalent of bored and laughing (at the same time - no simple idea). bored and laughing is "contradiction" in postmodern theory. one example from jacques lacan (french psychoanlyst and critical theorist): "the unconscious is the discourse of the other"... then when talking about how this applies in therapy, he adds "the subject first talks about himself without talking to you, then he talks to you without talking about himself. When he is able to talk to you about himself, the analysis is over."
musical performance is a form of therapy spoken out loud. the unconscious freely expresses anything it chooses. when the unconscious stops talking the "therapy" is over - either someone else starts "talking", or there's a structured passage (composition or arrangement) which creates a segue.
you might like what george lewis has written comparing john cage and charlie parker as two musicians interested in "real-time" music. it's worth a read. http://www.4shared.com/file/92896573/cd ... dcage.html
b
