by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Musique Surrealistique
Language: English
What is art?… Imitating the glissando of a flying airplane, or imitating a whirring glissando of the wind, rattling in the tree crowns… Can you hear it?… Imitating the glissando of a flying airplane, or imitating a whirring glissando of the wind, rattling in the tree crowns… Can you hear?… Can you hear?… Can you hear?… Can you hear?… Can you hear?… Can you hear?… Can you hear?… Can you hear?… Can you hear?… The interpretation of the singing of birds, dolphins, whales, bees, frogs, cicadas, even humans, in all their perfection… What is art?… What is art?… What is art?… What is art?… What is art?… What is art?… What is?… Can you… Can you hear?… Can you hear it?… Can you hear it?… The interpretation of the singing of birds, dolphins, whales, bees, frogs, cicadas, even humans, in all their perfection… What is art?… What is art?… What is art?… What is art?… What is art?… What is art?… What is art?… What is art?… What is?… Can you… Can you hear?… Can you hear it?… Can you hear it?… I have recently watched falling stars. They flew to the northwest, every few minutes,… …much faster than the evading planets, which together with these stars formed a mystical counterpoint:… …earthly planets, here and now, and extraterrestrial stars, billions… …of years old, whose light is reaching me… …of years old, whose light is reaching me… …of years old, whose light is reaching me… …of years old, whose light is reaching me… …of years old, whose light is reaching me… …of years old, whose light is reaching me… …of years old, whose light is reaching me… …of years old, whose light is reaching me… What is art?… Mystical nature. Cosmos. Everything in its own time… And I pick these different times, I look and embrace them with my consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… I would like to say surreal consciousness… sssss… …consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… …consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… …consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… …consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… …consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… …consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… What is… What is… What is… I’am moved by it. I’m thrilled by the size of the universe and my own smallness… sssss… Can you hear it?… Is this art?… The noble imitation of nature? An honest interpretation of nature?… What is art?… …the acceleration or the deceleration of the natural time… …It is to make the time of nature un-real, it is to make nature un-real, it is to make time itself unreal… …Art is goodness, beauty and wisdom at the same time… …Art is goodness, beauty and wisdom at the same time… …Art is goodness, beauty and wisdom at the same time… …Art is goodness, beauty and wisdom at the same time… …Art is goodness, beauty and wisdom at the same time… Can you hear?… Can you hear it?… This action is sometimes straightforward, and… Can you hear it?… …often not straightforward, and „diagona… …lly” through our consciousness, subconscious… …sness, or superconsciousness. Let us u… …nderstand this „in the undertext”, the mind… …„in the under-text” – so you should feel, a… …ssimilate and draw conclusions as no… …ble as noble as art is noble, or… …at least as noble as art should be. Can you hear?… Can you hear it?… Can you… Art is perfection! Art is an attempt… …to touch mataphysics, an attempt to… …subdue the phenomenon of time, an… …attempt to purify the so-called soul –… …through katharsis, and the body – through e… …motion. Can you… Can you hear?… Can you hear?… Can you hear?… Can you hear?… Can you hear it?… …consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… …consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… …consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… …consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… …consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… …consciousness, subconsciousness, superconsciousness… What is art?… Can you hear it?… Can you hear it?… Can you hear it?… Can you hear it?… Can you hear it?… Surrealism,… for me, is also equivalent to art – as I said before… Surrealism,… Northwest of our consciousness, or southeast of our dreams?… No matter from which side we look at it, the spiral is still going somewhere to meet… Surrealism,… and the symmetry of the universe will continue to breathe as it has been breathing until now. At least I hope so… So if art is a respectable, dignified interpretation of the „breath” of the universe, it is noble, because it is a surreal imitation of nature by accelerating or slowing down its times… thus, we can say that surrealism is the same. Also as a direction of art… Yes,… sur-real is noble!… Interesting… True?… Sur-real, detached from reality is noble… For me, yes. Why? At the end, I do not know why… I said so, but that’s how I feel! This is Something we do not know until the end, but we want to know, not to fast, not to slow… In its own time. Not necessarily terrestrial time… What is art?… Can you hear me?!… fuuuu… [breathing]
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- by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
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- by Hanna Kulenty (b. 1961), "Musique Surrealistique", 2018, copyright © 2018 [ soprano, clarinet and piano ], Donemus
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