i dunno part of what gives pomo its power is improbability
so they start the piece QUESTION ALL ASSUMPTION OF THE MEDIUM and you are all HOLY CRAP MY MIND IS BLOWN I NEVER THOUGHT THIS PERIOD OF SILENCE COULD BE A SONG?!!!!
okay fast forward a few decades or so, with a century of gawking at performance artists in our collective unconscious
i'm basically ready for anything up to and including a punch in the fase to be called a song! now i have constructed an entire career of compositions in which the piano plays various social, economic, and particle physics roles
no longer improbable. the probability distribution of events within the concert hall no longer differs from that outside the concert hall--in fact, the consert hall was commisioned by a postmodern zoning board to be a series of 7 stars located at least 100 lightyears apart from one another, since postmodern lawyers have decided that not only can all physical objects be owned but all possible combinations of physical objects can be owned.
at that point actually playing the piano becomes the most improbable, most rule questioning thing that can happen. the shark jumps over itself, turtles all the way down, dedicated to our beautiful botox faces, hallelujah amen!!!!1 |
