Friday, November 30, 2007

Art as asymptotic function

For a period of so many centuries there was never a shortage of novelty in music. There was simply so much music that had yet to be discovered. Literature has behaved in very much the same way. True, every 100 year period has a few recurring trends, among them logic and balance one century, free form and Romantic ideals the next. Always something fresh off the hizzy. Same for theater, movies, and so on. But has anyone else not noticed how static things have been getting lately? And so suddenly, too, I mean wow, just look at the millions of genres and subgenres, with millions of generic bands occupying these foul recesses? Every form of harmony, scale, structure, and rhythm has been tried and applied ad naueseam. Literature , too. I'm getting really tired of all the James Pattersonesque novels receiving "NY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER" where it's clearly either biased or undeserved or both. Or look at Tom Clancy, and all his derivative drivel. Check out the Tom Clancy Plot Generator program on Maddox.xmission.com to get a humorous perspective on how uninspired the plots are. I really do feel an exponential expression of some sort in my head, when I think of this "time line" art novelty image in my head. Pretty soon there will be no novelty at all in any type of art. I guarantee people will catch on pretty soon, if not eventually. Then what will happen? Movie industries, Hollywood, Music industries, Motown, it will all fail and go bankrupt. Mass chaos will ensue in the streets. Hundreds of homeless people, once powerful, evil pawns of industries like MTV, will be starving to death on the street, receiving what they rightfully deserve. Then one day, art will be an obsolete concept altogether. A mass, collective automatonic breakdown. No art, no emotion in life, no emotions = robot. And that's all we'll ever be. A huge collective pile of festering reproducing robots.

3 comments:

Charlie Donnelly said...

Modern art is the shit of robots.

Wendy said...

wowie. brilliant post. scared the shit out of me, but brilliant. glad to see you writing.

please god, i hope you're wrong about the end of art. i do think, though, that people have been saying that for a while now, read sontag, benjamin, heidegger and onandonandon.

Philip said...

yeah, i forgot to add in my post about atonal music, that the precise reason it was started (early 20th century we're talking here) was because they thought tonality had reached its absolute limits. Definitely wrong, there