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Oh, this is illuminating. A "compositional approach to performance" as dual to "improvisational composition" makes perfect sense for Gould. And as you suggest, Gould stays true to the material, no self-indulgence.
I am not a musician myself, but as a lecturer I experience a similar tension: the exposition must be free and created afresh in front of the students, and yet it must remain true to the canon.
#GlenGould #Shklovsky #improvisation #defamiliarisation #lecturing
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"Art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony."
Art as Technique (1917),
Viktor Shklovsky"To make the stone stony" --- Shklovsky speaks about literature and the characteristic difference between poetry and prose. But for me, "to make the stone stony" is also the battle cry of good teaching. Let the student experience the stone, for the first time.
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Lately I've become obsessed with the concept of #defamiliarisation by literary theorist Viktor #Shklovsky. Make the familiar become unfamiliar, understand a thing by making it strange. Once you recognise the principle, you see it at work everywhere. So in this photograph!
#Feininger was important to me when I started snapping as a young man. His handbook was my guide for many years, his photographs served as the standard. I now see that they are exercises in defamiliarisation.
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CW: Reflections on AI, authorship, & defamiliarisation
Lots of wisdom in your post. About #humour, human #authorship, the unordinariness of the #ordinary.
"When the ordinary stops being ordinary" --- to me as a teacher, that experience is also the key to a meaningful teaching moment.
#Shklovsky and the notion of #defamiliarisation come to mind.
Defamiliarisation as the haven for authentic human authorship!
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Also I think #Tolstoy was reading #Thackeray when he was fighting in the Crimean War? And #Shklovsky was writing literary criticism on the other front from #Wittgenstein. Could be fun to write something on "What we read while fighting." Or even "What pacifists read at war." Not that they all necessarily became pacifists. Just thinking aloud...