Friday, January 1, 2010
Stockhausen and Ritter
What is the connection between Stockhausen and Ritter? I think the idea of the experimental sensorium of one’s own body. The electronic musician in his studio evokes his auditory perception in assemblage with his machines. In one respect the compositions are proofs of these phenomenological experiments. There is a collapse of subject and experimental object in an act of self vivisection. Can we make a connection to Nietzsche here (hear)? But also we see here how Stockhausen was ultimately a romantic artist. Is there a “good romanticism” that can be identified with becoming cosmic?
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From "Romanticism, belief, and philosophy" by Michael O'Neill and Mark Sandy:
"J. W. Ritter, a young scientist who discovered ultraviolet rays and belonged to the Jena circle of the Schlegels and Novalis, delivered a talk to the Munich Academy of Science in 1809 entitled "Physics as Art." He presented the original state of the earth as totally organic, and the present division into organic and inorganic matter as a late and degenerate condition. The earth has died, and the mineral veins of the earth are picturesquely the fossil remains of its former living skeleton. The task of physics is twofold: historical (the reconstruction of the decline into the present state) and apocalyptic (the retransformation of all matter into living organic form)."
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