Sunday, March 29, 2009

On refrains and melodies stuck in my head

Play inside Deleuze and Guatarri (A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia 1987:350).

"Produce a deterritorialized refrain as the final end of music, release it in the cosmos-that is more important that building a new system. [the gestural notes of bodies arising from sleep... how does the refrain territorialize itself? What fleshy boundaries must it pass and also fix to create qualities, signatures? How do melody's establish themselves?] Opening the assemblage of sounds to the Machine that renders it sonorous, from the becoming-child of the musician to the becoming-cosmic of the child, many dangers crop up [the rhythm captures, is an apparatus of capture- even in becomings, sometimes]: black holes, closures, paralysis of the finger and auditory hallucinations [the house awakes in the morning, groaning as the rain makes it swell and shift], Schumann's madness, cosmic forces gone bad, a note that pursues you, a sound that transfixes you" (1987:350).

The melody that pursues, becomes lodged, the catchy song: caught up in morning bird-songs where melody's are becoming-expressive as sonorous, guttural, cracking, stretching movements herald a new day.

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