Friday, January 26, 2007
More breakthroughs in metamusic theory
Developments in metamusic theory have come so thick and fast recently that your humble reporter has been in “deer frozen in the headlights” mode these past several months. Let me try to summarize the extraordinary conceptual breakthroughs that have been made and are in process, as I write.On the heels of the proposed definition of metamusic as “something like music” Dr Herpes has made the radical suggestion that metamusic is a “reframing” of music. An important demurral by Dr Backwards, to the effect that this implies that metamusic is derivative of music, whereas the opposite could be true, has been resolved by an astonishing application of the dialectic; both music and metamusic are separate reframings of a more fundamental category. The terms “usic” or “meamuic” are being debated as appropriate terminology.
If the discovery of a fundamental art form were not enough in the way of epoch-making analysis, the debate on the reframing issue has led Dr Lapaunche to conclude that “song” is its own category, neither derivative of music (or usic) or metamusic (or metauic). While song is related to music/mic and metamusic/metic it has its own independent authenticity. He is now working on a reframing of song as “anson” or “ong”, in English
Developments in metamusic theory have come so thick and fast recently that your humble reporter has been in “deer frozen in the headlights” mode these past several months. Let me try to summarize the extraordinary conceptual breakthroughs that have been made and are in process, as I write.On the heels of the proposed definition of metamusic as “something like music” Dr Herpes has made the radical suggestion that metamusic is a “reframing” of music. An important demurral by Dr Backwards, to the effect that this implies that metamusic is derivative of music, whereas the opposite could be true, has been resolved by an astonishing application of the dialectic; both music and metamusic are separate reframings of a more fundamental category. The terms “usic” or “meamuic” are being debated as appropriate terminology.
If the discovery of a fundamental art form were not enough in the way of epoch-making analysis, the debate on the reframing issue has led Dr Lapaunche to conclude that “song” is its own category, neither derivative of music (or usic) or metamusic (or metauic). While song is related to music/mic and metamusic/metic it has its own independent authenticity. He is now working on a reframing of song as “anson” or “ong”, in English
