Ideas and expression flow forth out of what something is.
I wish to make music that reflects a cosmic ideology. Music that always changes, that bubbles out of the chaotic depths and hardens around an intelligible theme upon repetition of pleasurable elements, that then collapses back into the ether comfortable with the birth and death of its own distinct life. Also that each of the actors expressing this are equal in their power relations and are free to express themselves within the group, adding to the overall mass of artistic output.
Can produced like this, as far as I know. Curious that they saw themselves as an anarchist collective. C.communism, a.anarchism, n. nihilism. Curious elements indeed.
All this stands in contrast to the dominant mode of music-making in the West: the careful construction of repeated elements in which certain artists within the group rise as the dominant artistic members that influence the artistic direction and a hierarchy forms around the construction of crystalline musical works. Such a phenomenon produces great music, but its no longer what I'm interested in personally, though elements of this can always figure in. The actual practice is never as pure as the ideology of course.
I can gaze back and rationalize all this out of my preferences and relate it back to the philosophy I work on. But really it all stems from intuitive tendencies that I otherwise can't dispense of. It is how I make music. It is what moves me. Everything else bores me or angers me, which I really don't have that much control over.
We experience ourselves choosing a philosophy. But we also simply move forward as part of a greater indifferent force.
