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Art is Either a Complaint or Do Something Else (John Cage)

John Cage 'Haiku'

New Art

G. Ayres Example of New Art?

Having gone through a series of old vinyl recors from the 60's and 70's, I've noticed the strange word "New" appearing on the covers, and not a few times. Quite frequently the word "New Music" shows up, even today, to desribe contemporary composed music that is not always easily categorized. It includes a wide range of different types of musical projects.

During this time period (60's - 70's) people were actually fascinated, and paid good money, to hear silence in a concert hall for a few minutes and call that "composition", someone plucking and banging various intruments, workshops with modern composers spending hours expounding on the content of their music, which had to be explained to be understood "correctly".

There was a contemporary New York School both in art and music, but only the latter was sometimes referred to as "new".

As so called "modernism" came relatively late to the musical scene, compared with visual arts, I wonder where they got the term "new" from. Because art, as modern and radical it could ever be, wasn't typified "new".

Or, was it?

Imaginary Art

Imaginary City by Pyrros Alexopoulos

A very pretentious title, it is. If something is imaginery, then what would not be imaginary.

Homer Flynn (or was it Hardy Fox[?]), of the Rez' Cryptic Corp. fame, once said that "surrealism is the same as ... life".

But we would hardly perceive anything as "surreal" or "imaginery" if it was indeed part of what is called perceivable life. What purpose and meaning would such descriptions otherwise serve?

No, not another worthless discussion about what is "normal" or not. Just plain human nature at work with creating its symbols and values of what is considered "real", and the habit or playfulness of the mind to ponder what is "not real".

Should we wonder then why Albert Einstein said that "imagination is more important than knowledge".