Path: utzoo!hoptoad!uunet!tektronix!reed!jshea From: jshea@reed.UUCP (Jackson Shea) Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk Subject: Re: Alternative Audio Stimulation (fot the cyberpunk) Keywords: Music? Who needs Music?? Message-ID: <8459@reed.UUCP> Date: 12 Mar 88 05:38:02 GMT References: <7205@ncoast.UUCP> <1694@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Reply-To: jshea@reed.UUCP (Jackson Shea) Organization: Portland, Oregon Lines: 34 > >Explain what you mean by true aesthetics transcending time. As far >as I know, no living experience transcends time. >Neither Beethoven nor your blood-letting-type remedy for my headache. If I may be so bold as to jump into this conversation, but I just couldn't re- sist the mention of aesthetics. I'd like to bounce around this interpretation I've cooked up. I find true aesthetics is transcendant because the essence of qualifying it as "true" transcends the mere experience itself and the music (or painting, or ornate belt buckle from Guatemala) becomes a mere vehicle through which the "true" aesthetic is transported. The true aesthetic can be seen as an inten- sity of emotion. The qualification of this emotion would would again make it experience and therefore (granted) time-dependent. But if we look at true aes- thetics as the intensity of happiness, sadness, anger, calm, etc. we the real- ize that there is something which is enduring in Beethoven which is not found in Wham or Duran Duran (all fans of aforementioned groups, please refrain from flaming criticisms on the net, that's why God created e-mail before the net). ___ () ( > / /\ / __/___. _. /_ _ ______ / ) /_ _ __. / / (_/|_(__/ <_/_)_(_) / <_____ (/__/__/ /_