The noise of time

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• Musical notation caresses the eye no less than music itself soothes the ear. The blacks of the piano scales climb up and down like lamplighters. Each measure is a little boat loaded with raisins and black grapes. A page of music is, firstly, the deployment in battle of sailing flotillas and, secondly, the plan according to which night, arranged in plum pits, sinks. The colossal arpeggiated descents in Chopin's mazurkas, the wide staircases festooned with bells in the Liszt etudes, Mozart's hanging gardens with parterres, trembling on five wires-- these have nothing in common wiht the undersized shrubbery of the Beethoven sonatas. The mirage cities of musical notation stand like starling houses in boiling pitch. Schubert's vineyard of notes is always pecked right down to the seeds and... (查看原文)

  Adieudusk 1赞 2012-02-13 08:32:24

• Which tense do you want to live in? -- I want to live in the imperative of the future passive participle-- in the "what ought to be." I feel like breathing that way. That's what I like. There exists such a thing as mounted, bandit-band, equestrian honor. That's why I like the fine Latin "gerundive"-- that verb on horseback. Yes, the Latin genius, when it was young and greedy, created that from of imperative verbal traction as the prototype of our whole culture, and it was not the only thing that "ought to be" but the thing that "ought to be praised"-- laudatura est-- the thing we like... The above was a conversation that I carried on with myself as I rode on horseback among the natural boundaries, the nomads' territories, and the gigantic pastures of Alagez. In Erevan Alagez stood th... (查看原文)

  Adieudusk 2012-02-25 08:57:26

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