Comments on: Daily Dose for August 8, 2007 http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/08/08/daily-dose-for-august-8-2007/ Just another Xponentialmusic.org weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:17:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Hunter Gordon http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/08/08/daily-dose-for-august-8-2007/#comment-789 Hunter Gordon Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:16:33 +0000 http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/08/08/daily-dose-for-august-8-2007/#comment-789 Great Daily Dose Cathy! Music is, after all, art. And photography is best when it combines the capturing of a real moment with an essential quality in an aesthetically moving way. And movies are best when they combine a sequence of visual, auditory and conceptual sensations that strike an aesthetic nerve in us. The amazing movie Blow Up combines the best of all three mediums in a unique and powerful way. Perfect choice! And since I haven't watched Blow Up for a few years, I had forgotten how zombie-like the audience was in the Yardbirds sequence. The disconnect between the excitement of the musical moment and the visually dead still-life of the audience is conceptually shocking to me, and thus creates a unique aesthetic experience. Thanks! (Yeah. I majored in philosophy. Every so often I get excited, can't help myself, and it comes out all high-falutin, like above. Sorry.) Great Daily Dose Cathy! Music is, after all, art. And photography is best when it combines the capturing of a real moment with an essential quality in an aesthetically moving way. And movies are best when they combine a sequence of visual, auditory and conceptual sensations that strike an aesthetic nerve in us. The amazing movie Blow Up combines the best of all three mediums in a unique and powerful way. Perfect choice!

And since I haven’t watched Blow Up for a few years, I had forgotten how zombie-like the audience was in the Yardbirds sequence. The disconnect between the excitement of the musical moment and the visually dead still-life of the audience is conceptually shocking to me, and thus creates a unique aesthetic experience.

Thanks!

(Yeah. I majored in philosophy. Every so often I get excited, can’t help myself, and it comes out all high-falutin, like above. Sorry.)

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