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Member Since: 1/18/2007
Band Website: 12rec.net/Release_David-Schweighart_046
Band Members: distractions, bedpans, stopsigns and other traffic controls like a policeman, empty cans of chinese tea bought in italy, cigarrettes, cooking devices (like bedpans?), frozen ponds or lakes, singing birds, crickets and grasshoppers, children screaming "i love you!", all kinds of luggage, trees, flowers, bees, hippies, NEDs (scottish ones only), subways, staircases, heavy doors, squeaking doors, rusty doors, elevators, airplanes (only tupolevs I'm afraid, I'm very afraid), little one(wo)man sports sailing boats, empty halls, crowded malls, london, budapest, vienna, murska sobota (no, thats a lie i'm sorry), musca domestica, plastic tubes, metal tubes and everything else that can be made out of metal, instruments, singing people, whistling people, screaming people like me (but just from the backside), who's lost in detail now?
Influences: "Während an der neuen Musik dem von der Produktion abgeschnittenen Publikum die Oberfläche befremdend klingt, gingen doch ihre exponiertesten Phänomene aus eben den gesellschaftlichen und anthropologischen Voraussetzungen hervor, welche die eigenen der Hörer sind. Die Dissonanzen, die sie schrecken, reden von ihrem eigenen Zustand: einzig darum sind sie ihnen unerträglich. Umgekehrt ist der Gehalt des allzu Vertrauten so weit dem entrückt, was heute über die Menschen verhängt wird, dass ihre eigene Erfahrung kaum mehr mit der kommuniziert, für welche die traditionelle Musik zeugt. Wo sie zu verstehen glauben nehmen sie bloss noch den toten Abguss dessen wahr, was sie als fraglosen Besitz hüten und was schon verloren ist in dem Augenblick, in dem es zum Besitz wird: neutralisiert, der eigenen kritischen Substanz beraubt, gleichgültiges Schaustück. In der Tat fällt denn auch in die Auffassung des Publikums von traditioneller Musik nur das Allergröbste, Einfälle, die sich behalten lassen; ominös schöne Stellen Stimmungen und Assoziationen. Der musikalische Zusammenhang der den Sinn stiftet, bleibt in jeder frühen Beethovensonate dem durchs Radio dressierten Hörer nicht weniger verborgen, als in einem Schönbergquartett, das ihn wenigstens daran mahnt, dass sein Himmel nicht voll der geigen hängt, an deren süssem Ton er sich weidet."____________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________ Theodor W. Adorno: Philosophie der neuen Musik
Sounds Like: "...And a terrible
thing is music in general. What is it? Why does it do what it does?
They say that music stirs the soul. Stupidity! A lie! It acts, it acts
frightfully (I speak for myself), but not in an ennobling way. It acts
neither in an ennobling nor a debasing way, but in an irritating
way. How shall I say it? Music forces me to forget myself, my real situation. It
transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of
music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do
not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to
act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when
I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others
laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul
in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. I become
confounded with his soul, and with him I pass from one condition
to another. But why that? I know nothing about it. But he who wrote the 'Kreutzer Sonata'-Beethoven- knew well why he found himself in a
certain condition. That condition led him to certain actions, and for
that reason to him had a meaning, but to me none, none whatever. And
that is why music provokes an excitement which it does not bring to a
conclusion. For instance, a military march is played; the soldier
passes to the sound of this march, and the music is finished. A dance
is played; I have finished dancing, and the music is finished. A mass is
sung; I receive the sacrament, and again the music is finished. But
any other music provokes an excitement, and this excitement is not
accompanied by the thing that needs properly to be done, and that is why
music is so dangerous, and sometimes acts so frightfully.
In China music is under the control of the State, and that is the way
it ought to be. Is it admissible that the first comer should hypnotize
one or more persons, and then do with them as he likes? And especially
that the hypnotizer should be the first immoral individual who happens
to come along?..."
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---------------------Leo Tolstoy
"Kreutzer Sonata"
Record Label: 12rec
Type of Label: Indie