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RE: Loop approach: Loop as effect



Is that engrish? ;)

I make music because it's fun.

Ernesto


On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:48:58 -0400, "Graboski, John"
<John.Graboski@ssa.gov> said:
> Why? 
> 
> There is an aphorism in Guitar Craft that reads: "Music so wishes to be
> heard that it calls on some to give it voice and some to give it ears. 
> If
> we consider this creative musical impulse to actuation, what is
> necessary to
> bring this potential into expression?  As potential, this
> about-to-be-becoming act does not exist (in esse), other than in
> potential
> (in posse).  So, although it does not exist (in esse), it is
> nevertheless
> quite real.  Since it is real, but does not exist, this potential act
> of
> music needs a field within which to know itself.  That is, the act of
> music,
> which is one, requires a relationship with itself.  For this unity to
> have a
> relationship with itself, it requires to separate within itself, but
> not
> apart from itself.  So this oneness regards itself in twoness.  There
> is
> music and, say, the audience of music. Or, there is music and, say, the
> musician." (THE ACT OF MUSIC, Pt.I, Guitar Craft Monograph One,A,
> February
> 18, 1988)
> -Jay
> 
> 

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