Susanne Kogler: Vom Widerstreit der Bilder und Tšne. Neue Musik im Spannungsfeld von
musikalischer Autonomie und multimedialer €sthetik
Since the era of silent movies, sound and image have not
only been realized as two different components of artistic expression but as
rival counterparts. This polarization embodies an aesthetic tension that
continues to inform twentieth-century music with far-reaching consequences. The
debate in current new music circles concerning the sound/image opposition takes
its cue from aesthetic controversies dating back to the nineteenth century,
namely, the distinction between art- and popular music and the ideal of Ôabsolute
music.Õ The following study examines the antithetical aspects of sound and
image with regard to contemporary music and exposes both the framwork behind
the divergent positions and the clichŽs and prejudices present in music criticism.
Analyses of selected avant-garde works incorporating recent technologies
demonstrate the ways in which the tension between these two elements can be
productively integrated: Mauricio KagelÕs artistic efforts demonstrate how the
confrontation between diverging artistic means can lead to novel ways of
perceiving reality; Olga NeuwirthÕs multimedia compositions reflect realityÕs
increasing trend toward fantasy and imaging. The disconcertion caused by
visually enhanced music can, finally, be a correlation to a general feeling of
menace at the omnipresent flood of images fictionalizing the temporal world.
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