Music to Hear on Here: Stella Soliel's take on "A Warm Place"

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Stella Soliel's take on "A Warm Place"

“Music, like signifying, derives from no metalanguage but only from a discourse of value, of praise: from a lover's discourse: every “successful” relation – successful in that it manages to say the implicit without articulating it, to pass over articulation without falling into censorship of desire or sublimation of the unspeakable – such a relation can rightly be called musical. Perhaps a thing is valid only by its metaphoric power; perhaps that is the value of music, then: to be good metaphors”(284-285).

I think it is necessary to throw out there that I have used a version of this song on the blog before. This mix simply adds a layer of vocals but changes it pretty dramatically. If I understand the concepts correctly I think this piece may serve as an that works against "articulation".

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Course Description

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." Martin Mull (or Elvis Costello)

Thinking about the meaning and value, intellectual, affective and neurological experiences, and aesthetics of music has occupied an important position in modern and contemporary philosophical writings. Central to the philosophy of music is a questioning of what music is insofar as it is an art form and practice, akin to but different from other arts, such as drama, literature, painting, sculpture, to name but a few examples. Claims have been made, in fact, that music’s effect, when performed and listened to, surpasses those of the other arts because of its abstact purity, of its universality, and of its singular capacity to express, represent and incite emotions. This course will explore such issues in 19th-20th century philosophy. We will begin with introductory readings of what composes the field and discipline of the philosophy of music. We will read—among other philosophers, novelists, critics and musicologists—Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Barthes and Adorno’s writings on music. Finally, we will have the occasion to read about and listen to specific musicians, both high and low, and explore the contexts of their work, concentrating on the historical and political dimensions of the practice, performance and art of making music.