They Just Don't Have It
Historia y presencia del Arte Sonoro en España They just don´t have it. Mikel R. Nieto October 20, 2014, in the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) Talking about music is a succession of battles; it’s an entire war; every battle is an attempt to define the unattainable, the unfathomable part of the human being. Every war is a war lost, in advance; writing about music is definitely not practical, it is an internal struggle in text form. Music is not written, it is inscribed in our memory, by perception, by listening. Why write about music, then, if it alone describes itself? It is engraved in our experience, in our perception, in our hearing, in our memory. In memoriam. Writing about music is a tribute, in the past, in the present without a future. Then, when I take a book and read a text that tells me about music, I listen, I appreciate it; especially because I feel reflected, within human limitation, to describe the indescribable, beyond perception, beyond our limits. (a)1 A reality. One possible fiction. Or two or three. 1 (a) – The letters stand We try to meet its terms, its borders, its limits, to understand for quotations from it, to think it. We limit ourselves to thinking; we think of limiting other authors that ac- it, narrowing it, marginalizing it, finishing it, but do not conceive company the text, loca- that its boundaries are our own limits: the limits of our perception. ted at the end. (1) – The numbers are We project onto music all our possibilities, all our knowledge, the for the footnotes.
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