forestine started reading Music Beyond Airports by Simon Cummings
need something to read to temper the judith butler that is very upsetting
this is the first kind of academic art book i've read since my mfa, which kind of burned me out on this stuff.
and it's really neat and a bit emotional to run into concepts around ambient music that connect with the installation art i was making at that time. one of the essays even references a book i cited in my mfa thesis paper. as i slowly got into making ambient synth music over the last few years, for a long time i told myself it was "just for fun" and had nothing to do with what i made before. but there is a throughline and it keeps hitting me as i read these essays.
taking a lot of notes around fragility in music, and the temporal "spaces" that music creates for the listener
this is the first kind of academic art book i've read since my mfa, which kind of burned me out on this stuff.
and it's really neat and a bit emotional to run into concepts around ambient music that connect with the installation art i was making at that time. one of the essays even references a book i cited in my mfa thesis paper. as i slowly got into making ambient synth music over the last few years, for a long time i told myself it was "just for fun" and had nothing to do with what i made before. but there is a throughline and it keeps hitting me as i read these essays.
taking a lot of notes around fragility in music, and the temporal "spaces" that music creates for the listener
if i was smart, i could have been looking up all the artists mentioned while reading those chapters, so that i could listen along and understand what the writers were talking about.
instead, i'm just starting chapter 7 and went back and wrote down as many as i could find. and now i'm listening to one but can't remember what chapter it was mentioned in or what they said about it
robertrich.bandcamp.com/album/sunyata-inner-landscapes enjoyable though