{"id":5421,"date":"2012-04-24T19:46:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T18:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2012-04-24T19:46:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T18:46:45","slug":"half-formed-thought-about-music-art-and-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2012\/04\/half-formed-thought-about-music-art-and-craft.html","title":{"rendered":"Half-formed thought about music, art and craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about music made by visual artists. It&#8217;s so interesting, and seems to shed so much light on their artistic thought and methods. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/sound\/dubuffet.html\">Jean Dubuffet<\/a>, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Creed, those fluxus guys.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking about visual art made by composers. It&#8217;s a struggle to think of anything really interesting, that extends or adds a new dimension to their body of work. Arnold Schoenberg, <a href=\"http:\/\/musicmavericks.publicradio.org\/features\/slideshows\/slideshow_ruggles3.htm\">Carl Ruggles<\/a>, it&#8217;s hard to see any connection with their music. It seems like the paintings would have happened anyway, with or without a head full of musical thinking attached. <\/p>\n<p>Of course I can think of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2011\/09\/john-cage-every-day-is-a-good-day.html\">one exception<\/a> straight away, but otherwise it looks like art has a lot to say to music, but music doesn&#8217;t have a whole lot to say to art. Once again I&#8217;m repeating Morton Feldman&#8217;s question: is music an artform? Or is it all just <s>showbiz<\/s> technique?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking about music made by visual artists. It&#8217;s so interesting, and seems to shed so much light on their artistic thought and methods. Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Creed, those fluxus guys. I&#8217;m thinking about visual art made by composers. It&#8217;s a struggle to think of anything really interesting, that extends or adds a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5423,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions\/5423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}