James
I really hope you're not just having a little joke on me. I mean, I'm
totally at a loss as to how you could suggest that music is anything but
time based. Think about it man. How can a note exist if not in time????? A
note has to have a beginning and end in time, without time there is no
note. A note is an absolutely fundamentally time based event! Cinema shares
this characteristic. A painting or a piece of graphic art you could
conceivably take in at a glance, in the briefest moment, time based media
you have to wait for. There is an unfolding that cannot be rushed, until a
certain amount of time has passed, the information simply isn't available.
As for the question about a band playing along with projections, the answer
is no. That's not at all what I was thinking about. I was thinking about
moving images working more in the way music does. The
hollywood/narrative/theatrical/literary stuff is all well and good (in its
place I guess) but you'd think that a rich dynamic media like this could do
more, go further, and music is an interesting model. What if a filmmaker
used images the way a musician uses notes? I was thinking of something more
like that...
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>Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 23:45:03 -0800
>From: James Huerta <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: FILM-PHILOSOPHY Digest - 4 Mar 2003 to 5 Mar 2003 - Special issue
>(#2003-60)
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>in terms of rhythm and time they are similar but i would disagee that
>music is time based. its aural as oppossed to visual. Although I find
>beauty in their synthesis which i think is based on the meeting of their
>rhythmic/time/movement components. I dont think they would necessarily
>ever completely merge though. But, id be interested in hearing the
>conditions of a merger. maybe they re able to successfully cross over.
>would a band performing along with projections be considered an example
>of a merger?
>James
Mark O'Connell
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