Friday, September 7, 2007

Madman Joe Netta, Bassist extraordinaire, congealer of the intangible.

Joe,
I really admire the methodical approach to your art making. Material seems to take backstage (is that the saying?) for these profoundly weird and well thought scenarios. The work you produce will become more successful the more you generate outcomes using the same methods. The map is an example. I would really like to hear the sounds of different cities played back to back to hear just how different cultures create their metropoli and if the resultant sound is somehow incidental, coincidental or inherent to a specific. Fascinating.

Steve Martin said "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture" He said this to convey the futility of talking about something that defies language yet has the capacity to express the human condition so articulately in a way language lacks. There are some connections to this quote and your idea. Have you considered having this music set to dance? .....that would be neat.
Also what would be cool is if you got a map of the human nervous, vascular or respiratory system and did the same thing.....

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