Walter Rhoads

Ferkungamabooboo:

As a visual artist (composing is a recent phenomenon for me), I'm more familiar with Dada as a movement in visual art. And in literature and the spoken word, although I guess that's more true for it's offspring, Surrealism.

For you, is Dada a living movement in the arts? In a sense, it never went away, inasmuch as Pop and Performance Art use absurdity, and they're still around. And Dada was sort of the beginning of the self-aware, parodist sensibility, which now is subsumed I think by "Post-Modernism," whatever that is.

I'm mainly a painter. "Isms" can be interesting, but the main thing is to just do the work, without regard for what some critic may call it. I think this goes for all the arts, including music.

I posted one of my compositions from my first CD in the thread on your "atonal" piece. Did you listen to it? It's short, but I'm actually sort of pleased with it. I wrote a couple tonight that will be on CD number six. I've done over a hundred of them since May, approaching four hours' worth.

I know I've got a lot to learn, but I think I'm making progress.

Thanks for being one of the more interesting members of the forum.


Walter Rhoads