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No matter what you do, you're always hearing something.
George Brecht
In fluxus there has never been any attempt to agree on aims or methods; individuals with something unnameable in common have simply naturally coalesced to publish and perform their work.
George Brecht
A. No matter what you do, you're always hearing something. Q. You mean to say that all of the accidental environmental sounds that surround the piece become a part of the realization of the score? A. Yes, that's right. Q. In that case, even the chairs are musical? A. Yes. In fact, there is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical.
George Brecht
The misunderstandings have seemed to come from comparing fluxus with movements or groups whose individuals ‘have had some principle in common, or an agreed-upon program. In fluxus there has never been any attempt to agree on aims or methods; individuals with something unnameable in common have simply naturally coalesced to publish and perform their work. Perhaps this common something is a feeling that the bounds of art are much wider than they have conventionally seemed, or that art and certain long-established bounds are no longer very useful. At any rate, individuals in europe, the us, and japan have discovered each other's work and found it nourishing (or something) and have grown objects and events which are original, and often uncategorizable, in a strange new way.
George Brecht
George Brecht
Occupation:
American Artist
Born:
August 27, 1926
Died:
December 5, 2008
Quotes count:
5
Wikipedia:
George Brecht
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