I don't know it's art until I create it.
There is no joy in knowing the result before getting there.
Personally,the joy is in the doing and perhaps getting there
mando
On Aug 25, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Allan Sutherland wrote:
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.
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