[NewMusic] slusser's article

[Jacob Lindsay]

--- decker <decker at resipiscent.com> wrote:
> Just saying, 

Dude!  Less jargon please.  Okay, I am wading through
it because I think you actually are saying somthing

beware the application of fMRI studies
> to aesthetics 

?????

and 
> ethics, evolutionary psychology tells you about a
> minute fraction of 
> subjective experience, the fraction that would
> equally apply to 
> cro-magnon as to pee-wee herman which is to say, not
> the most 
> interesting part. 

Aha!  Ok, that I understand.  However, here's
something to think about in terms of general human
behaviour.  In my experience, at the base of all human
behaviour you will generally find the same set of
triggers.  All our triggers are set at different
levels, depending on our experience, and we hopefully
learn to respond maturely and intelligently to these
triggers (good luck), but at the base it is all more
or less the same.  So with music, although we all have
very different relationships to music, I think at base
there is maybe just a handful of basic triggers
happening, and that you could theoretically trace back
any form of music to one or more of these triggers. 
Where music succeeds or fails to succeed is not
because of the form or tools used to create it, but
based on it's abilities to COMPEL us, in other words
to set off one or more of these basic triggers, no
matter how overtly complex or boundary-pushing it is. 
So that in a rather cumbersome nutshell is what
interests me about this book that Slusser is talking
about, because it seems to be addressing just this
issue.

Do I have a point?  I'm not sure.

Jacob Lindsay
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=44


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