[accessibleimage] Re: Mental synthesis of images

That was precisely the pun I was seeking although I didn't think the Bauhaus
school was Avant garde as much as it was modernist.  I'll have to look it up
now.

I thought of the band and especially its earlier works when I heard this and
Peter's description of the image made Kandinsky and his ilk jump out from
memory.  I could imagine everything from Bauhaus architecture (boring) to
the now ubiquitous chairs (we have them in our kitchen and, of course, to
paintings of basic geometry in primary colors.  I got to hear the band at
fairly small clubs back in the day and enjoyed watching them grow up.  Now
that I have listened to the audio a lot more, though, I think it is more
reminiscent of the Residents, Kraftwerk or other Euro-electronica of that
period.  Maybe I'll sample it, extend it a bit and write lyrics to it.  Then
again, maybe it deserves a lot of additions generated by the same system and
I'll contact Glass and Adams about an entire opera.

Sounds are so much fun because they are so much more abstract than words or
images.  Even Jackson Pollack couldn't take abstraction to the level of JS
Bach or Monteverdi centuries earlier.  People have understood the beauty of
abstraction since the first cave man started knocking on a rock with a
stick.  Images, though, have almost always tried to represent something.
Words are even more bound by reality and, in my opinion, the efforts that
Bill Burroughs and Brian Gyson as well as the Dada school tried with words
were failed experiments.

Then again, this list is about adapting graphics and not artistic movements
so I'll shut up and return to the book I am reading.

Enjoy,
cdh



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[mailto:accessibleimage-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Simon Ungar
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 8:31 AM
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Subject: [accessibleimage] Re: Mental synthesis of images

Dear Chris,

I have to listen to this now to see if you meant Bauhaus as in the German
avant-garde design movement of the early 20th century, or the early 1980s
British goth / new-wave / Bowie-tribute band.

In anticipation of great things either way....

Simon Ungar


On 12/1/06 13:04, "Chris Hofstader" <chris.hofstader@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Well, it sounded like Bauhaus to me...


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