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- Full Name:
- Jason Shapiro
- Website:
- http://www.fetik3.com/
Software Architect & Instructor. Ambient / Improvisational Musician.
Posts by fetik3:
Purchase Recordings
Venues
Articles
Internet Commentary
- On 1980-81
- On SURGES/SUSPENSIONS, COMME TOUJOURS
- On PERCUSSION MUSIC; IMPROVISED
- On SENILITÀ
- On IKEBANA (LONDON ENCOUNTERS)
- On IKEBANA (LONDON ENCOUNTERS) (another view [meticulous scrolling required])
- On IKEBANA (LONDON ENCOUNTERS) (yet another view)
- On SHADOW COMPANY & SENILITÀ [separate reviews under "Braxton" and "Corringham"; meticulous scrolling required]
- On CONTIGUOUS CHUNKS (a view from Italy)
- On CONTIGUOUS CHUNKS (a view from Belgium)
- On ANANKE
- On ANANKE (another view)
- On TESHUVAH
- On NOW
- On CONCERNING "THE OTHER CONDITION"/SPONTANEOUS COMPOSITION GENERATOR & MEDUSA'S LAIR [scrolling required]
- On MEDUSA'S LAIR
- On THE UNTENABILITY OF SENTIENCE & MORE WISTFUL TUNES FOR THE SINCERE
- On SOUND CARVINGS (ONGOING CELEBRATIONS OF INSIGNIFICANCE)
- On NOTHING IS NOT de minimis (A MEETING OF MULTI-INSTRUMENTALISTS)
- On ADD HAVOC
Aesthetics Addendum
Aesthetics
I believe I discovered the word “ananke” in a novel by Philip K. Dick. I scrawled it on a piece of junk mail with the definition “blind necessity/blind chance,” and carried it around in my checkbook for years, planning to eventually use it as a document title. Having acquiesced to Steve’s choice of “April/October 1991″ for the last album, I hoped to use “ananke” as at least a partial title for the album at hand. However, faced with Steve’s proposals this time around, I had no choice but to succumb to his pithy and wholly appropriate suggestions. As I was tired of carrying “ananke” around in more ways than one, Steve proposed that I incorporate it into liner notes for this LP.
Interpreting “blind” as humanity’s inability and an individual’s struggle to even partially grasp so-called reality, “ananke” somehow conveys a primary motivational component of my life and work. Additional clues can be found in the following quote from “Old Masters” by Thomas Bernhard – “Art altogether is nothing but a survival skill, we should never lose sight of this fact, it is, time and again, just an attempt — an attempt that seems touching even to our intellect — to cope with this world and its revolting aspects, which, as we know, is invariably possible only by resorting to lies and falsehoods, to hypocrisy and self-deception…” The struggle, the process to move, however slightly, from these overwhelmingly pervasive attributes of humanity, greatly interests me.
[2009: A decade and a half after writing these notes, and during which time I came to find out that "ananke" is actually the goddess of necessity, her name has finally graced a document.]- milo fine (liner notes to ANOTHER OUTBREAK OF ICONOCLASM [TWO EGGS, SLIGHTLY BEATEN])