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CMG | Cheney Markham and Gorman |
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Written by Dirk Markham
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CMG
Cheney Markham and Gorman
AN ONTOLOGY OF MUSIC
Music has several distinct existential modes. The Being of live music is radically different from that of recorded music. Live music itself can be separated into at least two forms: pre-composed music (music with a score or predetermined structure) and improvised music.
Without making any prescriptive judgement or claiming either of these forms to have more worth than the other, one must concede that live improvised music is unique in an existential sense. Live music is in one ear, out the other. It Is only as long as it can be retained in memory. Similarily, improvised music is creation Ex-nihilo: out of nothing. During true improvisation there is no fixed plan or preconceived direction. Improvised music falls back into the nothingness from whence it came just as quickly as it is created. Improved music will never be played live again. Those present while Markham , Cheney and Gorman played witnessed the synthesis of the Being-Nothingness dialectic. The result is becoming music.
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Improvising on electronic instruments is a futural experience which dispells the view that electro is the cold, lifeless or unimaginative work of automata. Analogue electronic musical improvisation offers a preview of how we will function when man and technology operate in perfect symbiosis. Although recording and distributing these sounds does in some way objectify them - one can play the cd repeatedly - the window on ultimate reality remains open. The listener has direct access to Being-In-Itself.
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