~ / works / thanatos trees for tim pauli
what is happening when we listen to music? what is music? an often repeated answer: music = organized time.
1.1 verba ecclesiastæ, filii david, regis ierusalem. 1.2 vanitas vanitatum, dixit ecclesiastes: vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas. 1.3 quid habet amplius homo de universo labore suo, quo laborat sub sole? 1.4 generatio præterit, et generatio advenit: terra autem in æternum stat. 1.5 oritur sol, et occidit, et ad locum suum revertitur: ibique renascens, 1.6 gyrat per meridiem, et flectitur ad aquilonem: lustrans universa in circuitu pergit spiritus, et in circulos suos revertitur1.
in turkey, people tie pieces of fabric to trees & make wishes. in great britain, people stick coins into trees to cure themselves of an illness. yoko ono invites visitors to make a wish, write it down on paper & tie the paper around a tree branch.
je ne fais rien, c’est entendu. mais je vois les heures passer – ce qui vaut mieux qu’essayer de les remplir2.
if music is time, then watching music can be synonymous with watching time. & watching time: isn’t that synonymous with watching one’s own time; one’s lifetime, which is passing; ones very own life, which is passing?
5m stereo except of 1h loop
sigmund freud linked the greek terms eros with the life force and thanatos with the death drive. the death drive - originally proposed by sabina spielrein - is the assumed energy in the human being to return to non-life, to the state before birth.
