AN EXPOSITORY JOURNAL OF EXTRACTIONS FROM WILDERNESS notes toward an environmental language
Type
Publication
Authors
Dunn ( David Dunn )
Category
Article
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Publication Year
1981
URL
[ private ]
Abstract
Is my primary responsibility as a composer merely the creation
of substantive concepts and structures, or am I responsible for
the formation and maintenance of a proper environment for such
structures?
Beyond this the question must be asked:
What are the contextual limits for such an environment and of what
might appropriate maintenance consist?
I assert that the significance of this question is particularly
relevant to discussions addressing the musical acquisition of
technology at a time when the sheer immensity of technological
resources constrains the survival of living systems in such a way
that I must confront the technological acquisition of music.
Despite what may be seen as obvious predispositions intrinsic to
certain technologies, rendering their function more readily
exploitable by industrial and political power structures, it
remains a commonly held belief that the user has autonomous
responsibility to determine if the signals generated from use of a
particular tool are input to or output from a given social context...
of substantive concepts and structures, or am I responsible for
the formation and maintenance of a proper environment for such
structures?
Beyond this the question must be asked:
What are the contextual limits for such an environment and of what
might appropriate maintenance consist?
I assert that the significance of this question is particularly
relevant to discussions addressing the musical acquisition of
technology at a time when the sheer immensity of technological
resources constrains the survival of living systems in such a way
that I must confront the technological acquisition of music.
Despite what may be seen as obvious predispositions intrinsic to
certain technologies, rendering their function more readily
exploitable by industrial and political power structures, it
remains a commonly held belief that the user has autonomous
responsibility to determine if the signals generated from use of a
particular tool are input to or output from a given social context...
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http://davidddunn.com/~david/writings/journal.pdf
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