Thursday, 26 May 2011

Memories of John Cage's 'Fifty-eight', and iffy downloading question

I am the man who in toystore reels back from model robot figure labeled 'Deep space star scream'.

My head is forever replaying John Cage's Fifty-eight which i got out of the library (Wellington central) late 1999/early 2000; oh how i would like to listen to those beehive sounding strings (or wind instruments?) again; as i now live in an area whose library system is -- how shall i write this -- broad but commercially minded, i now must either buy a 'collectible' copy 49$USD via Amazon.com or download from the mediafire/blog paradigm. I feel being mistreated to have to buy a 'collectible' copy for 49$USD (60.45$NZD? as of 05.2011); i suppose i will wait, i non want to pay for what is available, yet am very uneasy about downloading something for 'free' that is available commercially; what would Cage do? Concoct my own version based on memory!?
 
Repeat above text for the composers Toshio Hosokawa's 'Landscapes I - II - V, Fragmente II, Vertical Time Study III', and Henri Pousseur's '8 Etudes Paraboliques in 4 CDS'. Music is distraction from the logos anyway? Or music is logos for that which has no words, the rather unhearable sounds of the universal cosmos! And therefore non distraction but mindwarp ultra, music of no words, the reasonings of planets, moons, stars, nebulae, comets, chemical chains, intelligence, the tool, and black holes.
 
Do i want to be newmedia anarchistic type, riddled with copyright infringement paranoia? Might make me a hit with my contemporaries, but what of my soul?!


 
Tempted and riddled, out.

6 comments:

  1. Downloading from the mediafire/blog paradigm is an iffy business, i only download that which is unavailable commercially and those which i have purchased/owned in the past (and non re-sold/given away?) (entitled to a digital copy of all media purchased and gifted for ones entire life-span?); it's complicated but i feel righteous/justified in my downloading ethic here? Though paranoia at Aotearoa New Zealand's new internet copyright infringement laws still exists?

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  2. if media that i have downloaded becomes available commercially then i will purchase or delete i suppose.

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  3. i wonder if my past freakout a few years ago where i threw away all my cd's/videos/literature was due to future unease about Aotearoa New Zealand's out of whack internet copyright laws/regulations.
    I agree that people should non steal media/works via internet, but the termination of internet account by accusation only seems weird/wrong too me?

    Oligarchical 'legal' violence enforced laws creates unease, future and past? Oh my - if ignorant - brothers and sisters do non play their game; stay clean, stay righteous, non matter what your thoughts are on a legal/illegal event/situation? Educate yourselves about time-space forces that surround words/events/situations, keep clean of the wider worlds dementing interplays, be a bastion of righteousness against the evil of unrealistic fascist ideals (laws), oh children of the cosmos be whole/holy.

    I wonder if this post makes me an anarchist?
    NON this post just makes me very intelligent!

    Don't break any laws, non get caught up in breaking laws in some strange mental trap of breaking laws that laws create (in anger/reationary/hurt (future/past) ways); if it was illegal to wear purple on thursdays, i think some people would break that law too, eh?

    I think therapy, prayer, so called buddhist philosophy and meditation is the answer to stopping crime?

    'God' is that web of pressure that is our words, actions and laws, future and past?

    Stay clean of the world's mental pollution!

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  4. Mp3 download paranoia! Their coming too get me ahhh!

    (see future legal people, i knew you were coming*)
    * note to/for any future possible legal troubles

    ???

    Time and space are mine, and death non ends it.

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  5. Laws tame the still existant sub-human memes (mental/physical/mimicry) that haunt us, even in the 21st century (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=safOyeea-_A)?

    "laws are an unrealistic fascist ideal", ???

    Laws are still needed though? if only people did non take from another, or hurt and be unfair to another... if only aeh.

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  6. Laws tame the still existant sub-human memes (mental/physical/mimicry) that haunt us, even in the 21st century (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=safOyeea-_A )?

    "laws are an unrealistic fascist ideal", ???

    Laws are still needed though? if only people did non take from another, or hurt and be unfair to another... if only aeh.

    Where i am staying at the moment there is very little grafiti, i was calling this area "the promised land", but yesterday walking down a lane i found some spraypaintedness on a breeze block wall (do we call 'breeze blocks' 'cinder blocks' in Aotearoa New Zealand?).

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