Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 10:49:09
From: smoke navigator <gato-AT-inetarena.com>
Subject: RE: Re:  RE: Contact Improv


At 01:36 PM 12/9/97 -0000, you wrote:
>I like your writing about the body a lot - I think improvised music can
work in the same way (when its good!). Two lines, or two tones are by
themselves unfinished, but between them, in their connection can be formed
a third tone, a third body or voice which binds all the tones into a
(temporary) body. This emphasises the space in between the terms (where the
grass grows) and the non-objective nature of the tones. Not things in
themselves but becomings between terms. All is connection - the ego, the
"self" is merely a block to this greater dialogue in which we become each
other (I presume this is what you mean by anti-oedipal, a term which for me
is almost to specific, too narrow, for myself a kind of buddhist
terminology is more adequate). Life, not careers, is the issue and it can
be a real challenge holding to that motivation...whether dancers,
musicians, philosphers, or lovers of other types...

improvisational music is life.
the rest is just detail.

i am an improvisational musician that plays with a group of likeminded
individuals named ABDECEF...we fly by the seat of our pants, no charts, no
sheets, just pure feeling. our only philosophy is 'that which feels good,
sounds good'...no egos, nothing but the music. that is our goal. we wind up
playing the music that makes us feel good, seventies funk and jazz of all
stripes is our inspiration...perhaps i'll try to mp3 some of our recordings
and put them up on my (currently nonexistent) webpage for all to
hear....freedom.

> also, I do think that it is the body rather than the mind needs more of a
place in dialogue around D&G - a space outside all the bloody
philosophising is desparately needed lest this all becomes another merely
academic discourse and professional specialism, another code which you need
the keys to the hierarchy before you can begin to play. I feel some of the
debates on this the list are really stuck in the history of philosophy... I
thought the point was to kind of leave that behind...

i agree with you here. i think D&G's specialized language has a place, but
at the same time, their work is meaningless unless it is given to
everyone--if it remains in academe it is useless...it needs to flow outside
the boundaries of space and time and be incorporated into all vocabularies.

~gato~
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