tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post8171338870385551783..comments2024-03-26T01:59:52.206-04:00Comments on Just outside: Brian Olewnickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08567239067604835372noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-17249140253363338542010-04-30T08:59:22.961-04:002010-04-30T08:59:22.961-04:00English (translated by Ray Brassier)
I have a pos...English (translated by Ray Brassier)<br /><br />I have a postulate.<br /><br />I listen.<br /><br />I believe I have no ideas for making music ; but that by listening, I turn myself into a receptacle for the real.<br /><br />Yet everything escapes me, since my capacities are not those of a container.<br /><br />So I listen, before anything else.<br /><br />Then I act in response to what I hear.<br /><br />In a way, I superimpose sounds onto what I consider as my listening to the real, which is imperfect because it comes from all sides.<br /><br />Everything I attempt thus also escapes me, as surplus form and residue of what I hear.<br /><br />I never wait for anything.<br /><br />Again, in order to break the latent, silent quasi-mysticism, which would be the symptom of my listening, I try to restore to the real what it refuses me: sounds which I activate as so many variables acting upon the thickness of the negative.<br /><br />I thereby refuse to put in place a music-as-cut into the real.<br /><br />I want to remain in relation to the real and I say no to any ‘as’.<br /><br />In doing so, I say no to music, but this ‘no’ is the unilateral relation which I attempt to stabilize in and through sound, but in accordance with the real, as negative and foreclosed ; what I attempt to superimpose onto the latter acts as so many unknowns which would at once escape the whole even as they constitute it, beneath but also above all things.<br /><br />I effectively pit the similar against the same, knowing all the while that it is the presupposition of my failure that compels this hypothetical repetition.<br /><br /><br />French (original)<br /><br />J’ai un postulat.<br /><br />J’écoute.<br /><br />Je considère que je n’ai pas d’idée pour faire de la musique, mais qu’en écoutant, je me pose comme un réceptacle du réel.<br /><br />Cependant, tout m’échappe, car je n’ai pas les capacités d’un contenant.<br /><br />Donc avant toute chose, j’écoute.<br /><br />Puis j’agis en retour de ce que j’entends.<br /><br />En quelque sorte, je superpose des sons à ce que je considère être mon écoute du réel, imparfaite car de-tout-bord.<br /><br />Tout ce que je tente m’échappe donc aussi, comme forme et résidu excédentaire de ce que j’entends.<br /><br />Je n’attends jamais rien.<br /><br />Encore, pour casser une quasi-mystique latente et silencieuse, symptôme de mon écoute, je tente de restituer au réel ce qu’il me refuse : des sons que j’actionne comme autant de variables qui agissent sur l’épaisseur du négatif.<br /><br />Ainsi, je me refuse à mettre en place une musique-comme-coupure du réel.<br /><br />Je veux rester en relation au réel et je dis non à un comme.<br /><br />En quelque sorte, je dis non à la musique, mais ce non est la relation unilatérale que je tente de stabiliser par et avec le son, mais selon le réel, en négatif et forclos ; ce que je tente d’y superposer agit comme autant d’inconnues pouvant à la fois échapper à l’ensemble tout en le constituant, en dessous mais aussi au-dessus de toutes choses.<br /><br />Je tente quasiment le pareil au même, tout en sachant que c’est mon échec présupposé qui motive cette hypothétique répétition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-63803524497537236272009-11-09T15:42:56.674-05:002009-11-09T15:42:56.674-05:00on Loïc Blairon's "x/0", there is a ...on Loïc Blairon's "x/0", there is a text (written by Loïc) which is important I guessJacques Ogernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28154988.post-37915655267943098972009-11-04T14:19:26.759-05:002009-11-04T14:19:26.759-05:00Untitled
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