tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post5087523509219245235..comments2024-03-25T00:10:08.182-07:00Comments on Energy Flash: form(less) + function(less)SIMON REYNOLDShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-70333019890103609252015-12-28T14:27:48.193-08:002015-12-28T14:27:48.193-08:00current electronic music seems to be more and more...current electronic music seems to be more and more exposed to contemporary art discourse, while using the artworld's infrastructure (PAN events at MoMA and Kunsthalle Basel, Mark Fell at the Whitechappel gallery, Helm at the South London Gallery, Russell Haswell at the Serpentine, James Hoff at Frieze, Evian Christ's installation at the ICA, Factory Floor's durational performance at the Tate Bunkers, and so on). Current music producers having increased awareness of contemporary discourse in a number of fields (queer studies, postcolonial studies, Anthropocene theory, new materialsms, new realisms etc) it's something fascinating rather than problematic I guess... Apparently most people involved in discussions of Accelarationism and Speculative Realism are themselves fans of electronic music (see Lee Gamble producing a podcast for Urbanomic press, Kode9's installation at Speculative Tate). Any relation between text and sonics (or/and visuals) doesn't reduce the one to the other, the conceptual element in the best of those cases does not try to explain or analyse the affective element, which in turn is not trying to illustrate theory by other means... Those different regions are relatively independent of each other, at best trying to complicate rather than rationalize things... As more musicians try to incorporate textual layers in their work there are plenty of conceptual artists (or even just academics) who try to complicate their 'performative' lectures by using sound and visuals in order to interfere and distort their essays...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537988259790085733.post-17228992821811452015-12-19T14:45:51.262-08:002015-12-19T14:45:51.262-08:00Fernando Ramírez Ruiz says...
"It looks as mu...Fernando Ramírez Ruiz says...<br />"It looks as music going to the gallery, where would listen to the music equivalent of a shoebox and have to read texts (including the artists CV) to "get it"."SIMON REYNOLDShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01282478701882900354noreply@blogger.com