Re: Commodity Masochism

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In reply to: Re: Commodity Masochism posted by G.H. Hovagimyan on June 19, 1996 at 14:53:43:

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: : Ecstacy is Russolo's futurist noise-music (the intuonorumori) and Cage's 4 minutes 33
: : seconds. They together have reinvented music as the ambition to supersede information with
: : experience. The Cage experience of music is the experience of space (the sound environment)
: : as time (the duration of the piece).
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: I like your reference to Futurism and Cage. They are like two art historical bits of information that only have hearsay evidence as to their effectm meaning and structure. Taken out of their time period these performic gestures become a sort of mythic gossip/ patter that forms OUR art world. The commodity masochism to which I'm refering is a little more current. It's a feeling I have about how meaning is achieved in modern media/ driven art works.

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<p> : : : : : Ecstacy is Russolo's futurist noise-music (the intuonorumori) and Cage's 4 minutes 33 : : : seconds. They together have reinvented music as the ambition to supersede information with : : : experience. The Cage experience of music is the experience of space (the sound environment) : : : as time (the duration of the piece). : : : : I like your reference to Futurism and Cage. They are like two art historical bits of information that only have hearsay evidence as to their effectm meaning and structure. Taken out of their time period these performic gestures become a sort of mythic gossip/ patter that forms OUR art world. The commodity masochism to which I'm refering is a little more current. It's a feeling I have about how meaning is achieved in modern media/ driven art works.

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