Re: [-empyre-] shared canvas annoyance, wikis, blogs.

[Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>]

At 10:37 +1000 17/6/02, Damien Everett wrote:
> Hmmm, well perhaps art is as good as the artists "channeling" it... 
> this is like going to a jazz improv performance, its easy for 
> "players" to be self indulgent and selfish, it requires greater 
> skill not to let ones ego get in the way of "serving" good art. A 
> lot of my friends do the V(ideo)J(ockey) thing and some of it is 
> very very good, some of it very very pointless / boring...

yes but if you're not musically literate or jazz literate or whatever 
then it still largely remains unintelligible and often sounds like 
noise. you migth rehabilitate your experience in terms of artistic 
'expression' (romantic genius etc) but that also just means that 
musically you don't get it. for such work the audience needs to be 
'in'.

cheers
adrian miles
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