From Maize: Re-reading my facebook feed looking for all the artists Ive shared, and I ran across an old post in which I critiqued my own aesthetic tastes. (See attached status.) I felt an update was due. 1st-- My suspicion that ones fundamental aesthetic taste is deeply engrained early in life through some not-yet-understood process, and it cant be easily changed as one ages is no longer not-yet-understood. I have been studying neuroaesthetics, and I now no rather exactly what the process is and why its so difficult to change. It has to do with our visual cortex and the fact that we process vision and visual judgement not as individual events but through a process of comparison. (Thats the simplified answer) Unfortunately, knowledge is not half the battle. Its just fracking knowledge. 2nd -- To my great delight, I have a new most-favorite virtuoso album that I am relatively certain lines up more closely with my anti-fascist political leanings. It does have that really solid mix of narrative, sweeping myth-making, grandiosity, and personal bravery in the face of overwhelming odds (Goodnight London) and it deals with the question of how we face the apocalypse.... while also having a critical engagement with history and theory and literature, and maintaining intimacy... and challenging the sort of singleminded purity that bothers me in some of the work Im drawn to... Its so seldom you find an album that can humanize the very things it critiques, and treat its villains with such compassion... and also, thankfully, its something I dont feel a bit awkward listening to. Thanks, Seeming (official).
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 03:08:13 +0000
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