Musical Tour of the Bizarre @ Trinity
Posted by michelle on 10 Feb 2007 at 01:09 am | Tagged as: music, upcoming events
Feb. 16 – Music theory lecture by Gene Willet, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Willet will present “A Musical Tour of the Bizarre: Driving Around with Lynch, Zizek, and Lacan.” The presentation will begin at 4 p.m. in the Smith Music Building Room 347 at Trinity University. The event is FREE and open to the public.
This should be completely compelling and cerebral, you should nerd out and listen to the musical analysis. Highly recommended for developing a stronger constitution this year.
‘But I must continue on the path I have taken now; if I do nothing, if I don’t study, if I stop searching, Then I am lost, in misery. that is how I see things, persevere, persevere, that is what I must do. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal is becoming more clear, it will take shape slowly but surely, as the scribble becomes a sketch and the sketch becomes a painting. As one works more seriously, and embroiders on the initially vague idea, the thought at first volatile and transient – until it takes on a concrete form.’
Borinage, July 1880
Vincent van Gogh
The identity of something, its singularity or “oneness”, is always split. There is always too much of something, and indivisible remainder, or a bit left-over which means that it cannot be self-identical. The meaning of a word, i.e., can never be found in the word itself, but rather in other words, its meaning therefore is not self-identical. This principle of the impossibility of self-identity…