On 26/08/2009 01:10, "armando baeza" <[email protected]> wrote:
> To know what is art, is to eliminate the joy of doing it. > mando This sounds like absolute improvisation, making music without knowing how to play an instrument or make a sound. It is likely possible, it is likely it has been done, but is it adequate to enable a variety of arts to be produced, I don't think so. It is rather romantic or even mystical to think art is created without knowing or knowledge; making art entails knowledge and skills, even when it is the knowledge that a pissoir may be considered as art in a specific presentation and location, then again that may be piss. Or as Steve Lacy said describing his response to Don Cherry asking him to improvise without preconditions, Cherry said, and Lacy replied: 3 Well, let9s play9. So I said, OK.. What shall we play9. And there is was. The dilemma. The problem. It was a terrible moment, I didn9t know what to do. And it took me about five years to work myself out of that. To break through that wall. It took a few years to get to the point where I could just play.2 (Quoted in Bailey 1992, p, 55) How could it take 10 years to learn how not to know how to do something? Toodle-pip, Allan. -- http://braesidecottage-garden-music.blogspot.com/
