theory as poetry
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Theory As Poetry: John Mowitt’s “Music in the era of electronic reproducibility” (1987)
music, as an organization of noise or sound, arises within the structure of listening music’s social significance derives from the role it plays in the stabilization of this structure, that is, how it articulates and consolidates structurally necessary practices of listening. – John Mowitt, “Music in the era of electronic reproducibility” in Music And Society,… Continue reading
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Theory As Poetry: Rosalind Krauss’s “Grids” (1979)
The grid is an introjection of the boundaries of the world into the interior of the work; it is a mapping of the space inside the frame onto itself. It is a mode of repetition, the content of which is the conventional nature of art itself. As we have a more and more extended experience… Continue reading
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Theory As Poetry: Italo Calvino’s “Six Memos for the Next Millennium” (2016)
A meticulous effort to match the written to the not-written, to the sum of the sayable and the not-sayable. These are two distinct drives toward exactitude. In trying to account for the density and continuity of the world around us, language is exposed as lacunose, fragmentary: it always says something less than the sum of… Continue reading
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Theory As Poetry: Paul Gilroy’s “Darker Than Blue” (2011)
Ethical losses resulted from marginalizing the intersubjective, antiphonal equilibrium that had been practiced in ritual real-time collaboration between performers and crowds. Centering music creation on computer screens compounded these difficulties. The resulting music has sometimes celebrated the expulsion of any trace of fallible and funky humanity. The sinuous warmth of real-time bass and drum was often… Continue reading
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