How to Listen to Ambient Music
Musical Vocabularies and Purposes Many years ago, I had a university pal who turned into an evangelizing devotee of the summary painter Marc Rothko. I bear in mind her gushing over a catalog of Rothko's paintings, whilst I become questioning that I ought to be aesthetically challenged; I just did not "get" it. After all, maximum of the paintings were nothing however massive rectangles of color, with moderate irregularities and a contrasting border or stripe. All of the familiar reference factors of line and shape, perspective and shadow, had been long gone. I could recognize them as "design," however not as "artwork." While they had been eye-catching enough, I couldn't see why every body would rhapsodize over these abstractions... Till I first saw them for myself in character--a very exceptional experience! When I encountered them at the Museum of Modern Art, they literally stopped me in my tracks, subverting conscious notion and plunging me witho...