Tuesday, September 6, 2011
a moment in my past
One mourning of the day I was very ill, I was dreaming of a bull race, the first time that the bull had past, i had felt only a tiny rumble. I had got a little scared, but as the second time around, the rumble got bigger and I fell out of my bed. I was so horrified that I went right into my parents bed, while they were gone, and tried to watch t.v. and go to sleep. I would later find out that it was an earth quake that had struck, but the dream went hand and hand with the earth quake, and so for a moment, I had thought that I was crazy
Krapps last tape
IN Samuel Beckett's ''Krapp's Last Tape,'' a disintegrating 69-year-old
man sits in a dark cell of a room, randomly reviewing taped journals of
his life at age 39. As Krapp's life unwinds, we survey the detritus of a
painfully familiar existence - the death of parents, the loss of love,
the defeat of noble aspirations and resolutions, the eternally losing
battle against the allure of drink and the unruliness of the bowels. How
small and pointless the life of the 39-year-old Krapp looks, both to us
and to the utterly defeated Krapp of 30 years later. ''The earth might
be uninhabited,'' says Krapp - and so it might, even with him inhabiting
it.
The poetry is in the details of Krapp's remembered life. Whether we're hearing of ''a girl in a shabby green coat on a railway-station platform'' or even of a ''small, old, black, hard, solid rubber ball'' once surrendered to a dog, the specificity of the imagery always grounds Krapp as a character; he never becomes simply a symbolic vessel for the conveyance of abstract ideas. The play's drama exists not only in the gradual piecing together of the sad little stories of Krapp's autobiography but also in the contrapuntal psychological tension between the dying man at 69 and the still arrogant striver of 39. The humor is in Beckett's typical insistence on giving his lonely protagonist the costume, props and deeds of a clown: There's a banana peel handy for a near-pratfall, not to mention a verbal vaudeville gag featuring the unlikely consultation of a dictionary. Terror, of course, arrives in the gnawing threat of extinction; the gaping silence of death envelops the isolated Krapp and his room at every instant. And yet ''Krapp's Last Tape'' is not a wholly depressing play. In Krapp's pathetic attempts to rearrange, catalogue, evaluate, savor and combat existence with his tapes and their accompanying ledger, he is, in his way, making the one thing out of hopelessness that even Beckett concedes can be made out of it - art.
The poetry is in the details of Krapp's remembered life. Whether we're hearing of ''a girl in a shabby green coat on a railway-station platform'' or even of a ''small, old, black, hard, solid rubber ball'' once surrendered to a dog, the specificity of the imagery always grounds Krapp as a character; he never becomes simply a symbolic vessel for the conveyance of abstract ideas. The play's drama exists not only in the gradual piecing together of the sad little stories of Krapp's autobiography but also in the contrapuntal psychological tension between the dying man at 69 and the still arrogant striver of 39. The humor is in Beckett's typical insistence on giving his lonely protagonist the costume, props and deeds of a clown: There's a banana peel handy for a near-pratfall, not to mention a verbal vaudeville gag featuring the unlikely consultation of a dictionary. Terror, of course, arrives in the gnawing threat of extinction; the gaping silence of death envelops the isolated Krapp and his room at every instant. And yet ''Krapp's Last Tape'' is not a wholly depressing play. In Krapp's pathetic attempts to rearrange, catalogue, evaluate, savor and combat existence with his tapes and their accompanying ledger, he is, in his way, making the one thing out of hopelessness that even Beckett concedes can be made out of it - art.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/05/design-to-address-visual-performance-in-music-explained-by-a-giant-robot-face/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/05/music-for-dieter-rams-alarm-clock-becomes-melodic-minimal-treat-music-and-good-design/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/05/new-performance-controllers-midi-fighter-pro-will-face-gridfader-rivals/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/05/music-for-dieter-rams-alarm-clock-becomes-melodic-minimal-treat-music-and-good-design/
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/05/new-performance-controllers-midi-fighter-pro-will-face-gridfader-rivals/
Monday, May 2, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
my song
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
I do not understand what is going on, I here sounds, crashes, and many other things but do not understand some of it. John Cage talking is telling us that he does not eat meat. I just now realized that he is a conductor. He went to New Zealand. Still do not understand it other than the fact that he experimented with uses of instruments and many other things.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYYQyzeZ54U
This is Causal listening due to the fact you do not see where the sound is coming from
This is Causal listening due to the fact you do not see where the sound is coming from
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