Duncan Phillips Lecture: Rick Moody
We live tweeted from the Duncan Phillips Lecture with author and musician Rick Moody on November 2, 2012.
We begin! Phillips Director Dorothy Kosinski introduces the Duncan Phillips Lecture series and author & musician Rick Moody #DPLecture- Moody is the author of several award-winning books + has solo albums as well as 2 albums w/ his band Wingdale Community Singers #DPLecture
- "Literature that never lived in someone's mouth or someone's ear is desiccated literature" says Moody #DPLecture
- Moody describes the scratching of pens, whispers of teens, shuffling of feet during a performance of Cage's 4'33 #DPLecture
- Moody contemplates sound art by first asking whether sound art exists, and citing instances of it as far back as the Dada period #DPLecture
- So, Moody asks, is 4'33 music or sound art? "Does it make sense to think of Cage at all as a participant of sound art?" #DPLecture
- Moody finds BC Philharmonic rendition of 4'33 especially touching - the theatricality enhances the performance #DPLecture
- On Cage's ability to move freely thru the musical, literary, visual: "No genre remains standing at the end of his assault"-Moody #DPLecture
- "Sound art could be said to come from Cage, but it would be like carving a snapshot from a panorama" - Moody #DPLecture
- Moody's current project: fashioning audio recordings of celebrated visual works of art. Can it be done? #DPLecture
- Moody now plays his audio recording of Monet's "Water Lilies," among others…chatting, coughing, shuffling, high heels tapping #DPLecture
- Moody considers Cage's 4'33 "brazen and electrifying," the way Warhol's Brillo boxes were brazen and electrifying in their time #DPLecture
- Moody notes: "The sounds before and after are similar, but there is great relief in the audience" after a performance of 4'33 #DPLecture
- Q: is genre something that the creator (or the audience) can fully get away from, or is it unavoidable? #DPLecture
- A: "If you had no genre at all you would have no language…until you have a word to describe something, you can't speak to it" #DPLecture
- Audience comment: 4'33 started as a mixture of genres, but perhaps in the end it has become its own genre #DPLecture
- Some of the ideas Moody discussed (distinctions of genre) can be found in "The Performance Studies Reader" goo.gl/GZPWE #DPLecture
- Check out Cage's 4'33 for yourself! Thanks for following: goo.gl/PpNhq #DPLecture
