Haunting. The guitar maestro's image seems to explain why, for example, so
often we'll react strongly and positively to a singer whose voice range of
notes and techniques are 'inferior' to other singers'. Rising from the
soles of the feet.
The last quotation you selected holds an ancient beauty and truth.
I really appreciate these selections, Alison.
Judy
2008/9/19 Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
> My man is Lorca and his idea of duende (which neatly sidesteps the
> gendered problems of Musing).
>
> "The duende…is a power, not a work; it is a struggle, not a thought. I
> have heard an old maestro of the guitar say, 'The duende is not in the
> throat; the duende climbs up inside you, from the soles of the feet'.
> Meaning this: it is not a question of ability, but of true living
> style, of blood, of the most ancient culture, of spontaneous
> creation."
>
> And further: "All that has black sounds is duende". And further: "All
> arts are capable of duende, but where it finds its greatest range,
> naturally, is in music, dance and spoken poetry, for these arts
> require a body to interpret them, being forms that are born, die, and
> open their contours against an exact present."
>
> xA
>
> > If I _knew_ thoroly the Truth of what we can call 'Flow', I wouldn't be
> > posting this message. My aim's to flush out petc-birds' angles. With
> the
> > brains, sensitivities, and seeming unlimited as well as global
> information
> > possessed and expressed by petc folk, it seems insane not to launch this
> > thing! The following questions will, I hope, get some responses:
> >
> > 1) Let's get specific, down to microscopic, with what for YOU engenders
> > 'flow' and when it seems to start, when it stops.
> >
> > 2) What have your esteemed poets said or argued about 'flow'?
> >
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