A poem may be carved, moulded, mixed, or arranged. This is the same point as the boundaries of artworks. We are concerned with unity in art. But there’s also the ideal of balance in contrast in art, like spices in a soup. Consider pop and abrasiveness in a playlist, like my songs playlist, and Rina sawayama or TOTP era kkb uniting the elements in a single song or EP. Sometimes words mix like spices, sometimes they mix like paint. Destructive and constructive interference. This is about the formal properties of audio-attention vs. visual attention and their effects on the aesthetic qualities we value in music.
- Why is music so often used for mood management. Mood music is an actual thing. Presumably because you can multitask while consuming the art, unlike visual, game, lexical artforms. But people do use exercise as a form of mood management. What other artforms could have Mood X variants. See notes on podcasts, Sam Kriss quote.
- Sometimes you have to bring one of the elements of seasoning to make a work of art balanced, e.g. you can bring the sadness and an awareness of sadness to make happy shlock melancholy and poignant. which sounds nice and vital and particapatory. But it’s kinda somehow the same thing as podcasts needing one person as the listener rather than multiple. Otherwise they’re somehow too stimulating but also you put them on in the background. What actually goes wrong if two people try to listen to a podcast together?
Kinda relates to the impressiveness of different aesthetic achievements via:
- Nothing is difficult to do in a novel, the difficulty comes in doing something throughout a novel, to produce a sustained effect.
- Aesthetics Essay
- It’s very dumb and wow so deep, but why do relationships ending count as a failure but movies or books do not