John Cage:
I loved all the talk about method and process, sets of rules and processes that he made for himself, especially concerning layout. Something I was exploring around the time I read this reading. Establish a set of rules, and then set out to break them. Art impacting life is something I need to practice more, and not letting my life impact my art.
DJ Spooky:
The thought of remixing and sampling obviously is something I firmly believe in and this confirms my beliefs. This was easy to read for me. I really liked the part about automatic writing; this is something I also do often. I have a tendency to do some automatic paintings that don’t necessarily end up right side up, sometimes its good to get some shit out and fall on your ass at the same time…
Rings of Saturn:
I’m glad I didn’t read this when I was depressed… I read this reading on pain medication after being in the hospital, so I found the hospital part really funny. It was not easy for me to relate to Flaubert's problem, I’m not sensitive and I could never be confined anywhere, nonetheless my couch. I was pretty turned off and it couldn’t keep my attention, whoops.
Air Guitar:
Call me stupid… been done, but this reading was great. It was written in a way where I could really hold on to it. This might be because of my attachment I have with music and just being around industry and industry folk. I can actually deal with music people much better then I can deal with art people. With them its easy to convince someone that your cooler then them if you throw the intimidators on and your best “poker face” (no pun intended), considering it is the industry of cool”. With art people, its not that simple… it’s a test to see who can be more socially awkward and introverted... be cool… but don’t look it… be rich, but dress like a slob… makes a lot less sense to me and I really truly suck at it. The reading got me thinking of a world that could be flipped, where the fans are the museum goers and the artists are rock stars. You have your indie folk, your metal folk, some classic rock and some sweet hip hop. The attitude might be different, the cloths, the red carpet, the fans, the “lingo” but we are all making something that appeals to the senses. It got me thinking about my work, specifically the text work. As do most of us, I think we all listen to some form of music while we work. My list spans from Bach to Britney Spears to Bauhaus and Missy Elliott to Ministry. I see my work kind of like songs, especially those, they just have the audio missing, but if you close your eyes you know what kind of tone those lyrics go too.
Happy Holidays!
-Brett
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