One very amusing thing I came up with while analyzing John Oswald’s pieces is it seems that he’s trying to communicate a very important idea through his music: that all the new things, in various fields of art are never new but borrowed instead, the good old and forgotten ones. On top of that – yet another interesting feature – he wants to tell us it is good, it is okay to borrow someone else’s things and try to express your art through them, as well as honour the other musician.
It is fascinating
how for example his piece Plexure makes you think of so many things at the same
time while listening to it as it has so many different pieced combined together
in one unit, that it makes you wonder of all the years and talents of musical
history, of various rhymes, beats, melodies, sounds, patterns. And the effect
it causes: your brain starts trying to focus on one thing at a time, tries to
separate one from another, to figure out the melody but it can’t every time and
this feels like a race, but one that is peaceful and slow, as weird as it may
sound, because the melody affects you that way. You don’t become restless as
expected with such a pattern, on the contrary – you get together with the flow.
The concept of
copying just one sound timbre which is not forbidden in terms of copyright – or
at least it seems as it is not. It is quite difficult to figure out what and
also important how many pieces he combines in Plexure unlike for example Dab.
Controversial piece consisting of solely work of other composers then becomes a
unique masterpiece once you listen to it after hesitating for a while whether
it does or does not have anything authentic to it or is just designed to mock
artists.
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