1. Do you think music can lead one past the phenomenal world into some sort of universal, 'true' world? Or is music forever bound to culture and its expression? Essentially, do you think there is a universality to music, either it its effects or creation?
2. Is music an abstraction of life? Can music be a true escape from life if it is eternally bound to the technology to which it's formed? In "Guitar Drag", you reference Marclay in 1991 who said, "The record is supposed to be a stable reproduction of time, but it's not. Time and sound become elusive again because of mechanical failure. Technology captures sound and stamps it on these disks. They then begin lives of their own. Within these lives, technological cracks -- defects -- occur. That's when it gets interesting for me, when technology fails. That's when I feel the possibility of expression"(232-233). So, does technology suppress pure expression by anchoring music in time and space or does it create the possibility of a musical expression that never dies but rather eternally interacts with time and space?
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