On A Proposed Sound, An Advance On "Concretes"; Its Implements And Practitioners Described

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PORTAMENTS—tools for wholesale changes in audible groups, along alarmingly single vectors. As simple tones are carried and changed, so are any more evolved tone pictures.

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DESK MEDICS—who take those precious “narratives” in sound and sew at them ‘til they’re whole and unseamed. Attacks and decays pared and sanded; so as to result, some rays of light, some grit on the ground. They will do all that is possible to ensure that the listener does not hear an urban, tropical, or otherwise-classed landscape. The listener will be forced to concede that they are hearing something composed of real events which does not exactly mirror any one picture that could be seen. A whole not droning, not surrealistic, nor after any other manner—instead exactly isomorphic to soul of the desk medic on duty.

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A Messaienic felicity, whereby the heads of divers birds poke unannounced through color-swaths.

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If painting, having vacillated by turns between—The Event! The Texture! The Conception!!—can find itself resting gaily on the interstice between the three...surely music, having navigated the same options in a different order, can find similar couching. So we have a mix field, where use-elements (wheat), useless-elements (burr) working-elements (bees), and pure elements (bloom) gang into a solid ‘scape, to be pushed and pored through.

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To example it—an exemplary work could want to recall a plum, in that a) the plum is (mostly) geometrically sound, b) that the plumskin bites, but the bulk of the thing is mellow, and c) that the plum recalls a human referent, the bruise with its mash beneath.