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At 7:19 PM -0700 8/13/01, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote: >So how do other people see this sort of thing? Do others use this kind >of contextual mixing? Is the presence of obscure meaning in a song a >bonus, or a liability? Is it even relevant? (Many electronic and >loop-based musicians I've spoken to consider the "meaning" of a song >unnecessary, a simple side-effect of throwing things together that sound >good. I'm not going to start the "are lyrics important, or just another >kind of noise you throw into the music" debate just yet; I've been >blamed for starting flame wars with that too many times.) That's pretty much what I've done in my intermedia performance works - basic collage techniques. I haven't used pop music so much, but it's essentially the same set of principals: metaphor, metonymy, recontextualization, deconstruction, etc. I generally draw inspiration from 20th century modernist art movements (Futurism, Dada, Constructivism in the visual and performing arts and Joyce in particular in literature). It can get pretty convoluted and arcane, with a lot of private reference, but when I hear that someone "got it" I feel a particular satisfaction. Of course, most people don't "get it," which is why I'm not rich. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz