[-empyre-] critical boundaries -- Forwarded message from Patrick Simons

[Michael Arnold Mages <magesm@mindspring.com>]

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From: Patrick Simons 
Sent: 08/08/03 04:10 AM
To: empyre-owner@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Subject: critical boundaries


I share Keith's sense of a lack of critical analysis re. sound art circles, I get my intellectual stimulation from a different place, and the net art community, in a broader context offers that I think.

Perhaps a part of the reason for a lack of deeper analysis (for me that means political and economic) in a generalised sense among sound art circles is a consequence of the institutional boundaries mentioned, that for some reason, the focus within music/sound education has been on the deconstruction of technique and composition, rather than the place that sound/music in art has played.

It strikes me that visual art, for all its dyslexic mutterings has attempted to engage the social world with art, whereas compositio(music/sound/noise) has only really done so when it is part of a collective attempt to do so, with the futurists, dada, black Mountain college etc.

I as a sound artist blame the conservatoire/music academy for the failings, not the art academy.

best wishes

Patrick