Re: [xmca] G. Gould

MARVELOUS!
DAVID

On Nov 15, 2007, at 1:23 PM, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org wrote:

>
> What a truely fascinating time we live in. Please consider the
> following:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq_gQ
>
> hope this gets directly to Glenn playing in his bathrobe!
>
> eric
>
>
>
>
> "E. Knutsson"
> <eikn6681@studen To: "eXtended
> Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> t.su.se> cc:
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> G. Gould
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>
> 11/15/2007 04:32
> AM
> Please respond
> to "eXtended
> Mind, Culture,
> Activity"
>
>
>
>
>
>
> For those who think that Glenn Gould is more interesting than
> S.J.Gould:
>
> "Glenn Gould was a quintessential 'McLuhanesque' figure, living as
> though
> technology was an 'extension' of himself. [...] Gould claimed that
> at night
> the
> hourly news sometimes provided the material for his dreams. Gould
> was also
> able
> to make use of his radio environment, to put it to work for him. His
> constant
> audio input, sometimes provided by more than one audio source,
> supplied
> Gould
> with a means of dividing his areas of concentration. 'Quite
> mysteriously, I
>
> discovered that I could better learn Schoenberg's difficult piano
> score,
> Opus
> 23, if I listened to them both at once, the FM to hear music and
> the AM to
> hear
> the news.' On another occasion Gould described how he began to
> master a
> particularly difficult passage in a Beethoven sonata by placing a
> radio and
> a
> television next to his piano and turning them up 'full blast.' 'The
> fact
> that
> you couldn't hear yourself, that there wasn't audible evidence of your
> failure
> was already a step in the right direction.' Gould's ability to
> divide his
> various levels of consciousness through the manipulation of his audio
> environment resembles the type of simultaneous awareness that
> McLuhan spoke
> of
> in relation to the 'field' experience of the 'oral-aural' person. ...
> Gould's
> notorious irrepressible habit of singing while playing the piano,
> which is
> clearly audible in many of his recordings, is perhaps another
> indication
> that,
> more than most musicians, Gould was indeed McLuhan's 'oral-audial'
> man -
> incapable of remaining silent, totally involved in an activity that
> required 'the participation of the whole body and the whole mind.'"
>
> (Paul Théberge, "Counterpoint: Glenn Gould & Marshall McLuhan";
> Genosko, G.
>
> (ed.).Marshall McLuhan: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory.
> Vol. II.
> London & New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 49-50).
>
>
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