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it's in the framing, not the action.
btw, this is not a position i find particularly interesting. i was asked to sit in with a band last weekend. they wanted me to play vibes. i knew where the pitches were so it was in a sense easy, but i didn't know the instrument and so couldn't get to the sort of sound that interests me. the guy who asked me to play said that it didn't matter than i had never played vibes before. to me, it mattered. it's just one of those things.
i work with alot of conceptual art/constraint type systems because i find them interesting, but not so much because they let me do just anything---more because they help me get to someplace i haven't necessarily been before or wouldn't have been able to get to without the devices in place to frame the situation. but this goes entirely for myself--it's just how i think about these things in what i do. it's of no particular general value. i say it probably because i'm growing tired of arguing for approaches that i do not myself find interesting---but i am fine with the idea that other folk doing other things might find them to be so. and that's up to them--and they accept the reactions which their situations generate. anyone does.
and for what it's worth, i genuinely don't care that everybody at a particular performance i do enjoys it. some folk don't. that's fine. in some ways, i'd almost rather talk to folk who didn't really like it afterward though, because they are more willing to say stuff that might be useful. when folk say they like things, it's nice but doesn't tell you much.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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