That makes sense, thanks! On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Pall Thayer wrote:
The "title" text is from Kandinsky. I can't take credit for it. On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 3:24 PM Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: listening and really like the music, I do think when you say " he will sit > holding a book in front of his nose, and turn over the pages with a > thoughtful aspect, but his actions have for him no real meaning." - that this severely underestimates animal consciousness - Thanks for the music!, Alan On Fri, 8 Jan 2016, Pall Thayer wrote: > > The title of this song is: > > "Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of > our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its > own which can never be repeated. Efforts to revive the art-principles of the > past will at best produce an art that is still-born. It is impossible for us > to live and feel, as did the ancient Greeks. In the same way those who > strive to follow the Greek methods in sculpture achieve only a similarity of > form, the work remaining soulless for all time. Such imitation is mere > aping. Externally the monkey completely resembles a human being; he will sit > holding a book in front of his nose, and turn over the pages with a > thoughtful aspect, but his actions have for him no real meaning." > > https://soundcloud.com/pall-thayer/jamsession-session > > -- > P Thayer, Artist > http://pallthayer.dyndns.org > > == email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 718-813-3285 music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/tp.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour -- P Thayer, Artist http://pallthayer.dyndns.org
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