"Experience has taught me that proposals for how music might be about one thing or another are limited only the ingenuity of philosophers thinking them up. And since the ingenuity of philosophers is limitless, so are the proposals. It would be a life's work just to keep up....... but however philosophic ingenuity may produce candidates for aboutness in music, it is a hollow logical victory, simply a parlor trick, unless it can be shownthat the aboutness is something we should care about, something that makes the music interesting and valuable to us" (Kivy, p. 174)
For music, there is no reason that we can't substitute "abstract painting". For "aboutness", there is no reason that we can't substitute "meaninglessness". William tells us " Some people can't perceive or project many references, some can." While I would assert that those who can are not limited by the artwork presented to them. So, here's a little test: William can begin to list the references he can project from his favorite Kandinsky painting - - while I will begin to list the references that I can project from the Kinkade painting that I loathe the most. Then we'll see who can produce the longest list. And we'll also discover just how important the length of such a list might be to "something we should care about, something that makes the painting interesting and valuable to us" ............................................................................. ....................................................................... >Every sound will evoke reference, just as every shape does, and every color. In fact, the more 'abstract' the more references there are. There is no such thing as non-representational. The quest for meaninglessness is simply the quest for the maximum evocations. Some people can't perceive or project many references, some can. The fewer references one senses the dumber that person is...or, more likely, the more conditioned that person is. Nevertheless, we all need to use conditioned references most of the time (as when that tree is in my path so I must move around it). But once we realize that we can operate (think) in multiple metaphorical tracks at once, some rational and sequential or logical, some imaginative, non-sequential, poetic, then we can realize how wonderful experience and consciousness can be. So, the more you approach meaninglessness, the closer you get to imaginative and creative freedom and...paradoxically...meanings. It's so simple that it is too opaque for Kivy and many others. (WC) ____________________________________________________________ Cheap Diet Help Tips. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2231/fc/BLSrjnxYFS5dQ9l5Sq1TEo7oKN1ox3 qxtJdjzYSN7Hprc7tJZIk6e9hKbxW/
