| CONTEMPLATIONS :: Guenther Rabl :: Baroque Acoustics |
|
Without an internal sense of hearing, music cannot be made; this is known. It is the source of power that urges the musician to craft. Less known is the fact that it doesn’t function without an external sense of hearing either; that this only supplies the real model the musician can learn crafting from. One less gladly takes note of the fact, because the development of external hearing has unnoticeably remained stuck; its task has long been taken over by a substitute. And one almost expects from a musician what would be ridiculed in every other art genre: that he replaces the study of nature though the study of art, that he builds his hearing upon music, instead of upon the lively, colourful crafting of the acoustical environment, which, in its noisiness, will always be uncomfortable for an ossified musical theory that has persecuted us with its multiplication tables all the way to the most modern musical electronics. The consequence is exactly that very cultural uniqueness, wherever one listens today, from pop music to the so-called new music, which actually guides the same thing everywhere: baroque acoustics. |
|
© Günther Rabl 2001 |