I explored the Kneeing Towers expert. Well the sound was very irregular to my ears, often being interrupted by an abrupt silence of a few seconds. Sometimes it was too high pitched and even dislikeable. The silence was frustrating for me, I am a person who needs flow, and who needs flare. But at the same time it was intriguing. It was refreshing to think about the artist who dared to anger the listener, who dared to challenge the listener and who even dared to make their ears hurt a little bit. Maybe he had his reasons, but I have mine to hold my place. While I was listening to this piece of music a thought occurred to me, I realized how …wearisome it is for a thought to be interrupted, how even writers need that flow in their writing to deliver their message across. Than another thought occurred to me: that we are so in tuned to the flowy and flary writing that we might not even notice the beauty of the thought that triggers our mind, we might just need to be annoyed to be appreciative.
parrishka said,
April 15, 2009 @ 9:08 pm
what’s the kneeling tower expert?? I want to know!!!
parrishka said,
April 15, 2009 @ 9:12 pm
I really like where you’re going here.
When I was in high school, we studied a play-write named Bertolt Brecht. And he realized what you have realized. That sometimes art is so beautiful that we get caught up in it then we just go on our merry way. And he wanted to make people think as well as feel. So he used what he called “alienation devices”- annoying things that would disrupt the audience so that they would stop being carried away and think about what was happening.
there are a lot of contemporary poets who do something kind of similar. sometimes they call it “rupture.”
I’ll see if I can dig something up for you.
Ahhh, the heart and the head. Yours work together very nicely!