Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Music: the infusion of the Dionysian and the Apollonian - Dionysus: the music - melody and rhythm without words. The mouth and vocals can express this: it's only condition - that language is not embodied. Apollonian: the words and the language as it is sung. Since the sung can also have melody and rhythm, it is a peculiar autonomous infusion of the greatest art. When this infusion is itself infused with the instrumental Dionysian, we have a more complex infusion, and the primordial infusion is brought to the second power. Movies: the infusion is also made - we have the score: it transforms the projected images, and the images embody the Apollonian. The key question: how is consciousness transformed or effected when brought into sensuous contact with such an infusion? Is not this the beginning of a nascent, mystical contact with the Divine beauty? Or - more generally: contact with things of the spirit?: things that cannot be directly stimulated, but conjured, enchanted, awoken, or coaxed?
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