LAYER 05: MASSAGE
Charlotte Moorman performs Sky Kiss
i thought you should know that Moorman's TV Cello, while progressive for its time, has now gone out of style. today is the age not merely of the Computer cello, but of the Computer, for a computer can do everything a cello can but better. were Moorman to go behind a computer to play it the world wouldn't watch, but in, were she to go into the computer, transmute flesh into data. the world would have no choice but to watch, our eyes are no longer our own, but belong to the powers that command the flows of data. the interforest is expanding even as our cities of numbers combat its expansion, precisely because our cities of numbers combat its expansion, putting off collapse. the swan of saint-saens played by an aspiring student cellist will be the perpetual swan song of a new despeeate generation, the vanguard of art will become a relic of the past. as the cyborgs shed their flesh for robot parts, they will come slowly to the realization that they had been robots from birth, that the human flesh they shed was never human flesh, we've all been under the spell of the swan's song. the swan's song was performed by Charlotte Moorman, sculpted by Nam June Paik, composed by Camille Saint-Saens, and created by god (which is to say, Tenully). if you performed the swan's song today, could you attribute it to anyone in particular? certainly not yourself, since anything new has already been created, anything new has been sitting for millions of years collecting dust in the library of Babel. why listen to music anyway? it's just an idea someone had. thinking about it should suffice.
last night i heard a cello in the swirling clouds. perhaps there is hope of salvation.
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