The pillars, named SaReGaMa, are so-called after the first four notes (svaras) of the standard scale in Indian classical music – similar to the Western Do Re Mi Fa (solfège).
Together, they hold up the 15th-century ‚Ranga Mantapa‘, a main attraction within the temple complex. Resembling an open pavilion, it was most likely used for music and dancing.
Across the hall, primary plarger pillars are surrounded by seven smaller pillars that each ‚play‘ one of the seven notes in the Indian classical music scale. Made of pieces of huge resonant stone, the cluster of musical pillars vary in height and width, in order to produce the different tones.
* Bereits 2019 veröffentlicht, aber mir erst jetzt bekannt: Max Erwins Text „Cyberbored/Culture-Jammed: The Short-Circuit of Musical Progress “
The following investigation identifies two potential departure points for scholarship on the work of Johannes Kreidler and – the following scare quotes should be read very emphatically indeed – technologically “engaged” art in general. In both cases, I demonstrate how Kreidler’s technological practice undermines two ideological traditions – and their respective foundational myths – of techno-musical progress. The first tradition, characterised by an immanent universalism and a concomitantly utopian teleology, is manifested in a number of hierarchical, “establishment” institutions: New Music in the upper case. The second, predicated on relativistic epistemology and focused on subject-centred musical practice with emphasis on the performance of marginalised social identities, has lately emerged, largely in response to upper-case New Music, as a non-hierarchical, emancipatory narrative – a sort of counterutopia – and is perhaps best exemplified by the individual “composerperformer” and their close collaborators: lower-case “new music”, as it were. This tradition’s critical position towards upper-case New Music (sometimes, not particularly helpfully, conflated with Modernism) is probably quite familiar by now, in Anglo-American scholarship, for example, from the works of Georgina Born and Lydia Goehr, among many others. However, I argue that Kreidler’s work – in addition to that of a few of his younger contemporaries – not only attacks hierarchical-institutionalb New Music in the upper case but also demonstrates the ethical and aesthetic limitations of lower-case new music practice, problematizes its emancipatory claims, and ultimately exposes its utopian project as an impotent, aporetic offshoot of the tradition it purportedly rejects. Despite this, Kreidler’s work can nevertheless be understood, via Virilio, as fundamentally humanistic in its performance of artistic futility, deploying pitiless technological processes to reveal a pitiful human subject.
Die Dialektik vom Subjektiven und Objektiven des Künstlers ist legendär und wird in einschlägigen
Sentenzen überliefert. Einerseits ist der Künstler das schiere Objekt der ›Welt‹, wenn Beethoven bei
als unspielbar geltenden Noten grimmig zu verstehen gibt, ihm käme eben »der Geist«, wenn
Schönberg postuliert, im historischen Auftrag zu handeln, denn Kunst komme »nicht von Können,
sondern von Müssen« und Jonathan Meese folgerichtig die »Diktatur der Kunst« ausruft, die
tatsächlich zu befehlen gebe, dass die rechte obere Ecke gelb zu malen sei. »Die Freiheit des Künstlers
ist, dass er keine hat. Versteh’s wer kann«, so Ernst Barlach in einem Anflug von Komik. Für Martin
Walser ist das Schreiben »die passivste Tätigkeit«, die er sich nur vorstellen könne, und Elfriede Jelinek
hält die Totenrede auf den Dichter: Er wäre notwendig »abgelebt, der immer nur anderes beleben
kann«. Das komponierende Ich ist nicht nur nicht Herr im eigenen Haus, es will diese Rolle tunlichst gar
nicht einnehmen, will das musengeküsste Sprachrohr höherer Mächte verkörpern. Das Verdienst des
Künstlers ist, eigentlich keines zu haben.
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Music fun fact: The world record for longest continuous note blown on a wind instrument belongs to Vann Burchfield, who played a note for 47 minutes on his soprano saxophone. Burchfield used circular breathing, a method that uses stored air in the cheeks. pic.twitter.com/zS65wU5Iuk
