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October 24, 2007 - Wednesday 7:53 AM

Current mood:  awake

"The World is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life…".

           

The Informational Revolution fundamentally redefined society: Satellites simulcast worldwide as mankind humbled in homage to the silicon chip. Advertising now defines class and consumer; individuals begin to define themselves digitally. The birth of "cool", this coca-cola bliss stunted language thereby collapsing culture. In contrast to these messages, artists pursued an identity outside the brand image. Joy and sorrow rediscovered primal paths of expression. Creativity became the call of the wild. Technology captured modern minds.

The twilight of the twentieth century saw the rise and fall of independent music artists; American poets used their voice to champion the cultural creative's cause. The industry then decreed the revolution would not be televised. Media conglomerates spun a market for neo-pop: mass industrialization of the arts; causing the reversal of value that accompanies the commoditization of creativity. For what value does an original hold when a copy can be made in facsimile? These copies then transmuted into commodity: items with a perceived value, however, lacking cultural capital. The epoch of mechanical reproduction would homogenize art into products of uniform par value. The question of art aesthetic became the cold quandary of the atomic age: the nature of machine.

Solving this post-modern conundrum requires dialectic method and a strategy of social synthesis. Together we must stand on the shoulders of those artists, writers, philosophers that precede us. Wisdom speaks from within true art, integrated beneath spectacle. This is The History: great men and women of insight expressing truth. Our responsibility is reaction.

Without response creation is Form, a timeless object that will be because it has been created simply to be. The object exists for its own sake. In this sense, high art is as benign as industrialised art is malignant. Esthetic as the sole aim of creativity is forever unattainable. When the artist finally commands truth, the creative act will proclaim it with passion. The creator and the creation are only realized with reaction. The audience imbues the Art with mortality that may reveal life's fleeting beauty.

Trans Modern Art will champion global awareness that we must together create a new dynamic form of communication. Art noveau as a social movement will cultivate human potential through total art synthesis. We will entertain, elevate, inform and illuminate. Our generation's masterpeice will be a never-ending network self-sustaining incorporation whose true purpose is to educate.

"…Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce." - President John F. Kennedy

 


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["Pop" music, as a specific sub-genre, would eschew the electric guitar driven sound of rock in favor of synthesizers, acoustic instruments, and more subdued rhythm sections.

At the same time, dance music, particularly the "disc jockeys" at urban parties were creating a different road into post-modernity in music. Their approach was to take records on turntables, and by hand control the speed of the turntable, and using the mixing board as an instrument, add reverb and other sound effects. At the same time they would speak into the microphone, using the dance tracks as a background for their own speech, which would lead, eventual to eventually evolving into the DJing and MCing of hip hop music. Further evolution in the 1990s turntablism movement focused on the DJing aspect of hip hop, with music made almost entirely of samples.

Minimalism and related postmodern musical styles laid the groundwork for re-integrating popular and 'highbrow' music, which had been separated since the rise of modernism. By the 1970s, avant-garde rock and pop musicians (such as Suicide and Throbbing Gristle) had become interested in electronic instrumentation, the use of Eastern rhythms and unconventional instruments (for example the use of the sitar by the Beatles) and drone-like or repetitive music, stylistically similar to minimalism (such as the music of The Velvet Underground, Tangerine Dream, and Kraftwerk). Tape loops also prefigured the use of 'sampling' in techno music and house music, and the 'scratching' of hip-hop. Moreover the 'ironic' 'cut and paste' approach of Stockhausen's later work (which used elements from both 'high' and 'low' art) was highly influential on many pop and rock composers in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.

The difference between modern music and postmodern music then is that modernist music was characterized by a focus on musical fundamentals and expression. In postmodern music, however, the commodity being sold by record companies and pop stars is not the fundamentals of the music, but the cultural image surrounding the music, which reverberates through film, television, and other media.

For some, post-modernity is degenerate modernity, the critic Theodor Adorno being a prominent example of the idea that trends of music after serialism represent the banalization of and regression from modernity.

For others, post-modernity is the sign of late capitalism and the decline of identity creating metanarratives, such as nation-states.

Another theory advanced is that post-modernity is the explicit reaction to the rise of a mass production consumer society, and is linked to the need to create coherence and aesthetic value from the artifacts and patterns of that society.]
 
Posted by Oracle Arion on November 24, 2007 - Saturday - 7:04 PM
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