This is really great because I have been wondering for a long time why I usually hate "experimental" stuff in artworks- but occasionally really enjoy it.
That Cage piece, for example, I enjoy. It makes a song out of the audience. Gets you to listen to ambient sounds and try to appreciate them as music.
But your point about intention may help me understand why I almost always find this stuff annoying and destructive, but occasionally like it. Usually, the intention is simply to deconstruct proper art. And I hate that. But occasionally, it's to help us expand our understanding of art.
Agreed on deconstruction! That is just an annoying trend. However, it is interesting when somebody deconstructs a genre or an entire art form and puts the pieces back together in a new and exciting way that has a POINT beyond just shocking normal people. It's a delicate balance and not an altogether bad pursuit. As with everything, it's all about what you do with it, and to whose glory you are doing it for.
Hm . . . on the musical front, I like Fantomas's "The Director's Cut" album, where they take apart and put back together movie themes. I also like another Mike Patton-related project--though one that guitarist Duane Denison is actually the leader of--Tomahawk, whose third self-titled album did the same with traditional Native American music: Denison studied with American Indians and put a rock spin on them. Both are strikingly different from the source material, but loving homages that highlight what worked with the originals. At the very least, they put a different spin on them. I like that.
This is really great because I have been wondering for a long time why I usually hate "experimental" stuff in artworks- but occasionally really enjoy it.
That Cage piece, for example, I enjoy. It makes a song out of the audience. Gets you to listen to ambient sounds and try to appreciate them as music.
But your point about intention may help me understand why I almost always find this stuff annoying and destructive, but occasionally like it. Usually, the intention is simply to deconstruct proper art. And I hate that. But occasionally, it's to help us expand our understanding of art.
Agreed on deconstruction! That is just an annoying trend. However, it is interesting when somebody deconstructs a genre or an entire art form and puts the pieces back together in a new and exciting way that has a POINT beyond just shocking normal people. It's a delicate balance and not an altogether bad pursuit. As with everything, it's all about what you do with it, and to whose glory you are doing it for.
Do you have any favorite examples or deconstruction done right?
Hm . . . on the musical front, I like Fantomas's "The Director's Cut" album, where they take apart and put back together movie themes. I also like another Mike Patton-related project--though one that guitarist Duane Denison is actually the leader of--Tomahawk, whose third self-titled album did the same with traditional Native American music: Denison studied with American Indians and put a rock spin on them. Both are strikingly different from the source material, but loving homages that highlight what worked with the originals. At the very least, they put a different spin on them. I like that.