Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Tuesday, March 13, 2007


Interesting that this man who's "recreated" Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations on an ultra-high-end player piano refers to music as "information." Strictly speaking, it is -- after all, Bach just wrote notes on paper. Notes and staves and tempo and loudness and pedal markings are information. If music were mere information anybody could play it. But something surely separated Glenn Gould, or Horowitz, or Schnabel, or Rachmaninoff from an amateur playing at a recital in Podunk. And if anybody could play music it wouldn't be music anymore. Maybe that's why we don't have music these days: anybody can and does play it. Under that circumstance we now have "information."

(Via ArtsJournal)

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