a cura di Vito Camarretta 24/04/2006
 Disco piuttosto ostico quello di Jarrod Fowler -intitolato Translation As Rhythm-, come un po' tutti quelli proposti dalla divisione musicale della Errant Bodies. Definirlo un atto ascrivibile a quella corrente nota come post-concettualismo sarebbe tuttavia limitativo secondo il nostro punto di vista. Meglio considerarlo come fanno alla casa madre: "una serie di investigazioni analitiche nella natura del pensiero e della pratica musicali. Un'esplorazione del "ruolo dei contesti etnologici, istituzionali, psicologici e sociali" in cui strutture aperiodiche, drones, registrazioni di campo si accompagnano a letture e riferimenti attinti da Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erik Satie, John Cage, Joseph Kosuth, James "JLIAT" Whitehead e dalle riflessioni dello stesso Fowler. Per provare a chiarire il senso del suo lavoro, ci siamo fatto una chiacchierata. E alla fine il suo lavoro ci pare meno ermetico di quanto appare...
Jarrod Fowler "Translation As Rhythm" (Errant Bodies) CD track listing:
1. Wittgenstein to Fowler
2. Satie to Cage to Fowler
3. Variable Occurrences to Fowler to Fowler
4. Kosuth to Fowler
5. Fowler to Fowler
6. Digital Data to Whitehead to Fowler
7. Fowler to Fowler to Fowler
8. Fowler to Fowler
Dear Jarrod. How are you? I’m happy to respond to your questions. Fowler... Any famous ancestors? "The English-speaking world may be divided into those who neither know nor care what a - is, those who don't know, but care very much, those who know and approve, those who know and condemn, and those who know and distinguish." Really interesting album... Are there any specific addressee of it? “This work is inclusive as it refers to a group including both the speaker and the addressee.” I could talk to you till next year without getting bored maybe on your investigations. But we should contextualize this chat to a "limited" format: the interview. So if you should make an introduction of one of your reflexions to our reader.... …who so must obtain a function by differentiation: 1. What is a - between two or more - where - are - to - - from the -? 2. What is the - of - to - - and the - to - more about - - -, - and -? Someone described your album as an esoteric issue more than a conceptual one. What do you think about this opinion? In ‘Sentences on Conceptual Art (1968)’, Sol LeWitt states “Conceptual Artists are mystics rather than rationalists.” Via its allusions and as a reference, ‘Translation as rhythm’ performs LeWitt’s ‘rather than’ as 'otherwise'. Or? So Jarrod, what's your favourite plant? Difficult to say…I have no specific preference. Although they’re composite plants, I’m fond of lichen. I also like lycopodiophytes... Everything sounds. But what is sound in your opinion? An argument or an agreement. 
Some critics looks like seeking an aim in
productions like yours. What's your aim if
there's any?
With ‘Translation as rhythm’ my goal was/is to
explore the topic and its intentions and
assumptions of practice and thought.
In the section called "Statements" in your website, there isn't anything written... A sort of anarchoid freedom statement, a nihilist excerpt, site under construction? …and/or a reference… In your viewpoint, should "meaningless" be necessarily meaningful??? One must consider this term’s context, intention and use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meaning_%28non-linguistic%29 What's your favourite author and why? Once again, hard to say. I do appreciate Carroll/Dodgson for his nonsense/logic, Wittgenstein for minding his nonsense, R.T. Peterson for his outward directives, C. Dworkin and K. Goldsmith for their disseminated directives, Conan-Doyle for his… What's your opinion on copyright? What is your view on exclusive rights? Some years ago, someone could merge your "way of arting" as a way of provoking... Nowadays someone should be more haunted by the search for a sense in what you do... Times are changing or it's just an illusion? “Here time continues and opinions change, each affecting these issues that remain arguable.“ |
