Pio
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3 years ago
Creativity is a communicative act, not just novelty.
"You have to have in mind what counts as art, what counts as a creative artistic act. I take it that just doing something new isn't sufficient. I mean we say that good art is original but not everything that's never been done before is good art. So there has to be more than just doing something new. It has to be somehow doing something new in a way that speaks to the audience or speaks to some portion of the audience. At least it has to be doing something new in such a way that some people who see or interact with it can see themselves a new in it. So I think that artists inherently a creative act. Uh sorry, a kind of um communicative act that it it involves a relation with other people. So think about the conditions for that. Working someone, I talk in that article, I can't remember something about new music, I think, I don't talk about stravinsky, but let's say stravinsky. Um stravinsky, you know, performs the rite of spring and there's riots. It is new and people hate it. People can't that sounds like a cacophony. It sounds awful. It's written according to principles that are not like the principles of music composition that people are familiar with. So in some ways it's a failed communicative act. But as as Nietzsche says about his own stuff, I mean, we now can recognize that it wasn't it wasn't a failed communicative act. It just it just hadn't reached its time yet. And and now that way of composing music, it's like, you know, it's in Disney movies, you know, it's so part of our musical palette that we don't we don't have that response. And it changed us, it changed the way we understand what counts as good music. So that's a deeply communicative act." source: video 
