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Originally Posted by Walter Rhoads
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.
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Yeah... I feel concepts of Dada are pretty common now - absurdity is almost mundane.
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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.
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Mos def. But it's a good shorthand to give people an idea of where you're coming from, especially for certain pieces. Going down that way, I usually call everything I write/play in that's not rock (or the damn jazz combos I have to take for my major) as "Contemporary Music," just to differentiate it from stylistic composers.
But I referred to Dadaism almost as a gimmick for the piece, so that there was something to grab onto for the listener. I'm gearing up for my senior (ok, 5th year) composition recital, and the school I'm at is hardly open to new music - which is weird, considering our professors are all pretty crazy musically.
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Thanks for being one of the more interesting members of the forum.
Walter Rhoads
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thanks for possibly the greatest compliment I can hear. Interesting is good to me
