NOTES:
A dance of neologisms, meaning is entirely untethered and context doesn’t exist. Comparing sound to a vector. Sound carries memories, no position. Vector. Carnivorous. Any sound can be you, any word you say is already known. Outside of time because the only moment is thought. Home is where your cell phone is. It’s all software. We create our history. Ultra-media saturated youth culture. Rhythms hold everything we know and understand together. Machinery of culture as an organizing system. It’s all symbolism. We’ll create new perceptions/sounds won’t be a living death. Music says there could be another way. Music of permutation. Jazz, going to the crossroads. Is it always the changing same? Sampling plays with perceptions of time. Do you want to have a bored delerium or an exciting one.
RESPONSE:
Until reading this article, I’ve always thought remix music was a sort of cop-out. Sometimes is was good, fun to listen to maybe, but it seemed cheap and paled in comparison to “real” musicians who would play “original” music. After reading this article, I came to fundamentally understand that everything is a remix. Even “original” songs are just a remix of the finite notes and chords on a guitar, pitches a singer can produce, etc. All songs are permutations of the sounds that we have at our disposal. The bigger conceptual leap for me was to then realize that everything in the world is a remix of the resources that exist in this closed system. Leaping off of that, all my ideas are a remix of the concepts and experiences I’ve come in to contact with. The external and internal are one in the same, originality doesn’t exist, and everything is symbolism, ultimately.
I’ve always thought mediated experience and over-saturation was a sort of evil and, while I still think there is a danger to it, the article made me realize that it’s really the driver of growth, testing all the permutations and seeing what works.