unprotected music: Nam June Paik - "Solo for Violin"

see this at Donaufestival 2007

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Music

Tags:

• zeitkratzer
• Paik
• Schlothauer

[cleomagoolando]

I love how not accepting avant-garde dadaist stuff without question automatically qualifies somebody as an oppressive Nazi who's trying to turn back the clock on art. I forgot that post-post-modernism or whatever the fuck this is doesn't allow individuals to have negative opinions about anything.

[cleomagoolando]

This piece of shit "performance" is insulting to anyone who ever wanted to play an instrument but didn't have the means to access one, sort of like when idiotic drugheads like Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix used to destroy guitars on stage. It's ludicrous masturbatory behavior, and it's even sadder that some egocentric intellectual quack had to "compose" a piece based on it.

[SmallRubberFeet]

He better not smash that violin!

[adamdrummer101]

Nicely performed piece. It's just a shame the person editing the video actually faded out the sound and video right after he smashed the violin.

[loobycliff]

@egapnala65 Danger Music is by Dick HIggins. Some of the series would be fatal, but some are performable.

[existentialistcat]

Watched this for the first time. At first I was like, "oh, it's about vulnerability and the end of the age tonal music." Then nothing was happening except the raising of the instrument, like it was held up in triumph and its reign would last forever. Then he SMASHES it and I was like "Nooooooooooo" D: And then there was post-modernism.

[DrTallTimber]

The first time I saw a performance of this piece, I honestly didn't think it was going to end the way it did... Paik manages to put a giant magnifying glass over time itself, and turns a couple of minutes into an eternity. Nice work!

[123reinders]

Never asked yourself the meaning ? Asking questions is the main lesson teaching is about. It gives them tools to learn how to you can live life. Not judging but understanding is far more important to become a skilfull, whole and balanced human being. It helps them living live at their best.

[afried01]

beautiful!

[TheAlonetogether]

J'aime le fait de briser un violon en pensant à la caméra qui vous filme. La façon de tenir le violon est ici merveilleusement étudiée. Aisance, délicatesse, doigté, souplesse. Le chandail en interaction avec le veston rappelle ici les mesures 234-248 du Sibelius. Le mouvement des bras accentue l'aisance émotionnelle du sujet. Le regard est ferme et mobile. Le bois du violon se fend à l'endroit indiqué. On s'ennuie follement.