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The Wise Kode9
Great words from Hyperdub founder Kode9:
A lot of these naming conventions are obviously driven by journalists’ need to label things. Do you think those kind of cultural filters are important anymore?
I think they’re more important now than ever, because we’re more snowed under with random bullshit, too much information, shit music. You need filters. So I think more than ever you need good filters with good taste and a sense of the future, and a sense of the direction things are moving in. That’s as important for other writers and readers as it is for labels and producers and artists. Okay, so some artists don’t read anything and just sit in their studios, but I’ve always been interested in reading music writing. Because, here’s the thing: Good conceptual music writing gives me musical ideas. The one thing you can do faster in writing than you can do in music is splice together ideas. You don’t have to splice together two sounds. It’s quicker to splice together the ideas and experiment with an idea before you even experiment with a combination of sounds, or make connections between things you wouldn’t normally make connections with.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
— Plato (via electronicmuze)
Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
— Aaron Copland
Music is a subconscious exercise in metaphysics, during which our mind doesn’t realize that it is philosophizing
— Arthur Schopenhauer
