Ritmi In/umani
In many ways, the 20th Century can be regarded as art’s attempts to escape the “tyranny of meter” (the phrase is Robert Schumann’s). Is there a way to think about the rhythm otherwise? Maybe the answer to this all-too-human tyranny of the repetition of the same is something inhuman – in|human rh...
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| description | In many ways, the 20th Century can be regarded as art’s attempts to escape the “tyranny of
meter” (the phrase is Robert Schumann’s). Is there a way to think about the rhythm otherwise?
Maybe the answer to this all-too-human tyranny of the repetition of the same is something inhuman – in|human rhythms. With the examples of works by John Luther Adams, David Dunn, and
Richard Reed Parry, this essay tries to show how with the idea of the human becoming a geological
(i.e. non-human) force itself, art has the responsibility to create an awareness of how we live not
only in the world, but also are part of that world. A music that ‘performs’ these ‘cosmic dimensions’
of the interdependence of human and nonhuman, by focusing on the in|human of the concept ‘human’ might also teach us something in regard to artistic (or musical) form – these rhythmic ‘relations of velocity’ ultimately reveal rhythm as the in|human nonlinear pulsation of ‘a life.’ |
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| spelling | doaj.art-974149e29ca14060b162b334396adc902022-12-21T23:54:26ZengACTLa Deleuziana2421-30982019-12-0110178196Ritmi In/umaniBernd HerzogenrathIn many ways, the 20th Century can be regarded as art’s attempts to escape the “tyranny of meter” (the phrase is Robert Schumann’s). Is there a way to think about the rhythm otherwise? Maybe the answer to this all-too-human tyranny of the repetition of the same is something inhuman – in|human rhythms. With the examples of works by John Luther Adams, David Dunn, and Richard Reed Parry, this essay tries to show how with the idea of the human becoming a geological (i.e. non-human) force itself, art has the responsibility to create an awareness of how we live not only in the world, but also are part of that world. A music that ‘performs’ these ‘cosmic dimensions’ of the interdependence of human and nonhuman, by focusing on the in|human of the concept ‘human’ might also teach us something in regard to artistic (or musical) form – these rhythmic ‘relations of velocity’ ultimately reveal rhythm as the in|human nonlinear pulsation of ‘a life.’http://www.ladeleuziana.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Herzogenrath.pdf |
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