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Date: 13 April 2004 20:44:51
...some of this. Thought this was interesting on the social impact of Walkmans/iPods. God bless academia huh.
And a few wise words from John Cage.
“When a composer feels a responsibility to make, rather than accept, he eliminates from the area of possibility all those events that do not suggest this at that point in time vogue for profundity. For he takes himself seriously, wishes to be considered great, and he thereby diminishes his love and increases his fear and his concern over what people will think. There are many serious problems confronting such an individual. He must do it better, more impressively, more beautifully, etc, than anyone else. And what, precisely, does this beautiful profound object, this masterpiece have to do with Life? It has this to do with Life: that it is separate from it. Now we see it and now we don't. When we see it we feel better, and when we are away from it, we don't feel so good.” (1952)