Month: December 2019
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Accidents
Musical events often seem to come about as a result of accidents, whether while composing or performing, or even while researching and writing about music. both composers and performers may come across new techniques or interpretations through mistakes. This is especially applicable in jazz and popular music, but is equally so for Western classical musicians.…
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Artifice
Artifice seeks to impart information, be it a message, an opinion, a judgment, or a physiological stimulus. It is therefore naturally implicated in the creation of Consensus, a term I am using to describe the cloud of received opinions and ideas in which we all live. Consensus is the statistical world of useful knowledge, generalization,…
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Art With a Capital F (Affects and Percepts)
Affects and percepts are two different concepts in psychology. Affects refer to the emotional experiences or feelings that people have in response to various stimuli or events. Affects can be positive or negative, and they can range in intensity from mild to intense. Examples of affects include happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust. Percepts, on…
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Percepts: The Landscape Before Man
In What is Philosophy?, Deleuze presents art as a compound of sensations that is preserved in itself, in so far as it exists, and sensations as true beings, real existences. “Art preserves, and it is the only thing in the world that is preserved” Art is a compound of beings that preserve themselves for themselves,…