Very very nicely put Andy. Yes, although the “real dog” is really a secondary manufactured “humanimal” from the very get-go, and I always have issues with real-ity (the transcendental ‘thing’ outside of some interconnected ecology that makes all nodes, all ‘beings’ deferred and transitioned into the rest, or at least blend into their neighours and then feather out), those three certainly did lose that spark-authenticity and became imitations or limitations of themselves. F’in used to love the Velvet Underground and Lou Reed and then I heard Betrayed (that awful crappy lyric of "the motorcyclist no matter how good is slave to the oncoming truck) and felt betrayed.
Senator, I didn’t know Lou Reed, but Lou Reed, you are no Lou Reed but an impersonator.
I am enjoying this thread as I really enjoy music. Flame and music. What a nice combination. Anyhow’s, silence and its salience.
I remember reading an interview with Prince Charles. I am a pUKe “subject,” and not a royalist or a republican. I am too bored with them to be bothered and they feel quite alient and not salient to me. Anyhows, “one does” (as those royals say in their own dialect!) appreciate how they are able to get into places and go places. That interview I read was Prince Charles reflecting on getting to a place of perfect silence. I was jealous. He was driven out into the Sahara Desert (if I remember the desert) and then was deserted for a time by his uber-supportive entourage who retreated and left him in this element. He reflected in the article (don’t know where I read it, and twas around 20 year ago) that he’d never experienced perfect silence with absolutely nothing and no sound or peep. I don’t know how long they left him to himself in that silence, but it did kind of underline the privilege of being able to be driven out and to experience a self-satisfying “sample” of that void, but without having to spend so long there that it might then threaten or might manage to stare back at him as in a mirror of the nothing that he, as all, are sure to become and not the princling given a bit of first class lounging silence.
I imagine he heard nothing of the nothing special and that made him feel pretty darned special. He’s also probably dropped mushrooms or acid and floated in an isolation tank and sutured the beast to the sovereign but not quite the silence of the flattening unflattering grave that awaits?
I think I did read an interview back in the day, but if it was all nothing but materials that were “cooked” up from these “raw” materials, then that’s absolutely pathetic! Talk about silence and stillness and perfect peace! All he’s done is get flown out to the desert and then got interviewed about how he is experincing the silence. Doesn’t look like he really got much of a look-in to that “silence” as he was too busy being reminded about how he should love the sound of his own voice! Narcissus and reflections in the water, rather than the void!
Oh man, Arvo Pärt for me was for me, as a musician, as a human, life changing. Love to see another arvo fan on this forum! My personal favorite is Fratres (all sorts of versions, but my absolute favorite is for violin and piano), it’s just… incredible. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jZPe0jhis4s
