Hi Barry,
Enjoyed this. Especially the last line, and the time/music connection.
And if music, then there's a dance with chairs?
Best,
Jill
On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> CHAIRS
>
> [via Brecht (George):
> “There is so little to do,
> and so much time to do it in.”]
>
> ‘I think being born is one of the great fictions,
> hence
> I allow myself
> to reinvent
> my birth-place
> & time whenever
> anyone asks me.’
>
> Brecht sits the world down and
> of course if the essential part of music is time,
> then all things that take place in time
> could conceivably be music.
>
> Experiential time can become the perceptual situation
> and stimulate the structural faculty
> of the time-keeper.
>
> You can’t avoid arranging.
>
>
> Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 2-7-06 (8:33 PM)
>
>
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