On 18 December 2012 08:48, Lorenzo Sutton <lorenzofsutton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Cultural heritage is going to pieces in many places due to the fact that in > the current (bank-driven) ultra-utilitarian society where culture and > humanities are considered 'ephemeral', If only that was true. Ephemeral things are not that easy to monetize. And cultural heritage is such a spurious notion anyway - it is about objects (by which I include musical scores) devoid of context, and rather too much like taxidermy. It's also rather a new concept. A favourite quote of mine from an article by Simon Emmerson - "We should not forget that the phrase avant-garde was first used by Henri de Saint-Simon in France (1825) at almost exactly the same time as Mendelssohn's inauguration of the museum culture in western concert music with the revival of Bach's Matthew Passion (1829) - the past and the future at once, western civilisation's triumphal claim to conquest over all time, let alone all space." Best wishes, Neil -- Neil C Smith Artist : Technologist : Adviser http://neilcsmith.net Praxis LIVE - open-source, graphical environment for rapid development of intermedia performance tools, projections and interactive spaces - http://code.google.com/p/praxis OpenEye - specialist web solutions for the cultural, education, charitable and local government sectors - http://openeye.info _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
