FInally Moving, Pretty Lights

Schopenhauer says, "the best in art…must be born in the beholder's imagination, though it must be begotten by the work of art" (On The Inner Nature of Art, 99). The music from Pretty Lights is amazing because the DJ leaves something over for the listener to think and feel for himself. This song offers a combination of ridiculous beats produced by a wide array of instruments and vocals which creates an ethereal quality, resembling a schizophrenic, hallucinogenic trip that anyone, either alone or with friends, can enjoy: "it is then all the same whether we see the setting sun from a prison or from a palace” (Artist and Sublime, 136). This was especially true when I saw Pretty Lights perform his set live for a sold out crowd in which every listener was absorbed into the sensory performance provided by the DJ's music and its complementary light show.