>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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