17 Aug
2013
17 Aug
'13
3:37 p.m.
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@...> writes:
On Sat, 2013-08-17 at 13:18 +0800, James Harkins
wrote:
Part of my point is that this wake-up call depends on the existence of an
audience (even if only a small audience) that *wants* a wake-up call -- an
audience that takes pleasure in getting smacked upside the head with something
they never heard before. The wake-up call function of music may be a feature
of this or that musical subculture, but I'm not sure that it has any meaning
independent of a musical community that supports it.
hjh
Ralf wrote:
> There's a difference between art and tools released for the public.
> Art, excepted of the crap on the radio, should not suit to anything.
This is a simplified statement. I guess it's Woody Allen's "Hannah and
Her Sisters" were somebody wanted to buy a painting, that should fit to
the color of the sofa. Design isn't the same as art, handcrafts isn't
the same as art. Sure, art you like will fit to your psyche, but it's
not the target to please people, it should give people a wake call.