Klarinet Archive - Posting 000153.txt from 2009/01

From: "Alexander Brash" <brash@-----.edu>
Subj: RE: [kl] Raptasm
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:09:27 -0500

Well I think we're slowly finding some common ground :)

> Human beings are burdened with self awareness but not provided with the
> intelligence to deal with it.

Yes, this is very apt. I usually go a step further and (perhaps
obnoxiously) posit that most people don't even qualify as sentient.

Alex

On Thu, January 8, 2009 7:02 am, Peter Gentry wrote:
> Hmm that is a mouthful.
>
> I was going to try and spread a little oil on the troubled waters. I see
> you
> perceive the difficulty in using words to describe music, difficult if not
> impossible. It assumes a high level of agreement between both sides as to
> what the words mean.
>
> There is a lot of audio art involving spoken/chanted words meaningful or
> nonsense which does appear to be music to me. Maybe these performance
> overlap with the proponents of "Rap", I don't know. In particular I was
> thinking of poetry such as "Under Milk Wood" and "The Wasteland" or the
> Walton piece Façade with Edith Sitwell when these are read aloud
> (skilfully)
> they are music. Similarly there is a Celtic tradition of "Mouth Music"
> which
> again appears musical. Now it may be that there are rare examples of "Rap"
> which fall into the same class. But like it or not the majority think of
> "Gangster Rap" when the word "Rap" is used. This is a nasty brutish
> exaltation to all manner of unpleasant practices and involves randomly
> gesticulating and sneering. This is the "Rap" I cannot find in any way
> worth
> bothering with.
>
> I wish you well in your struggles but in the end the answer will elude
> you.
> Human beings are burdened with self awareness but not provided with the
> intelligence to deal with it. We just muddle on until we die, nothing
> really
> matters.
>
> regards
> Peter Gentry
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Brash [mailto:brash@-----.edu]
> Sent: 08 January 2009 02:26
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] Raptasm
>
> I thought you might find this helpful. It's from a book I'm writing
> which will be out in March. This bit is still under heavy editing,
> so I'm aware it lacks a certain tightness, fair warning:
>
>
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