J. Michael reinforces my point: the music is involved with "joy"; the
picture, with "message."
K
"J. Michael Walker" wrote:
>
> >Josef Gulka wrote:
> > What of the unnameable vocabulary and architechtonic domains
> >of pure sounds... Music. To name/express that which 'cannot be named'
> >with objects and images that can be named, even if the composite sum
> >remains unnameable, seems no more, and sometimes a bit less capable
> >of such expressions than pure sounds which have no such grounded ties.
>
> It's true. The other afternoon while in my car, I turned the radio to what
> revealed itself to be a string quartet readingof Faure's Requiem, in
> progress. As I drove along, the sound filling the car, it was easy to have
> the sense of the car filling, too, with light - - and of becoming
> weightless, almost levitating (please, no jokes about LA drivers). There
> was a joy tempered with the sadness that the song would have to end - that I
> would have to return to life as I lived it before the song.
>
> Yet, of course, the song would be lost on all the people not attracted to
> such music, in somewhat the same way that a visual artwork speaks or does
> not speak to someone, conveys or does not convey its mystical message.
>
> jmichael
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