मेरा एक हिस्सा ऐसा भी है जो पक्का भौतिकवादी (मटेरियलिस्ट) है।

There's part of me that is a strict materialist.

There's part of me that is a strict materialist.

Topic Achievement & Work Money
Themes #Human Nature
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Reflection 90%

मैं कुछ खास पलों के जरिए 1960 के दशक और आज के समय के बीच की दूरी के बारे में सोचने लगा। जैसे उबुवेब (Ubuweb) के संस्थापक केनी गोल्डस्मिथ के साथ हेनरी फ्लिंट का इंटरव्यू, जिसमें वे बात करते हैं कि इस बात ने उन्हें कितना आहत किया था कि जॉन केज को इस बात पर कितना गर्व था कि वे लोकप्रिय संगीत के बारे में कुछ नहीं जानते। गोल्डस्मिथ कहते हैं, "आज के दौर में कोई भी हर तरह की संगीत शैली को सुनने में दो बार नहीं सोचता!" फ्लिंट के समय में जो बात बेहद अनोखी और क्रांतिकारी लगती थी, वह आज के समय में बहुत आम बात हो गई है।

I found myself thinking about the distance between the 60s and today through certain moments. Like the Henry Flynt interview with Ubuweb founder Kenny Goldsmith, where he talks about how he was scarred by how proud John Cage was to be ignorant of popular music. Goldsmith says, "Nobody thinks twice nowadays about listening to everything!" Something that had seemed so uniquely, radically syncretistic in Flynt's day seems much more commonplace now.

I found myself thinking about the distance between the 60s and today through certain moments. Like the Henry Flynt interview with Ubuweb founder Kenny Goldsmith, where he talks about how he was scarred by how proud John Cage was to be ignorant of popular music. Goldsmith says, "Nobody thinks twice nowadays about listening to everything!" Something that had seemed so uniquely, radically syncretistic in Flynt's day seems much more commonplace now.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Observation 92%

'आर्काइव' (संग्रह) शब्द सुनने में बहुत सुकून देने वाला लगता है, लेकिन आजकल जिन चीज़ों को आर्काइव कहा जा रहा है, मैं उनके बारे में पूरी तरह आश्वस्त नहीं हूँ। क्या इस शब्द के इतने सारे अर्थ निकल आने से कुछ खोया भी है?

The word "archive" seems so reassuring, but I'm not sure about these things that are now being called archives. Is anything lost by the fact that the word has come to mean so many more things.

The word "archive" seems so reassuring, but I'm not sure about these things that are now being called archives. Is anything lost by the fact that the word has come to mean so many more things.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Reflection 92%

जब मैंने जॉन केज की किताब 'साइलेंस' पढ़ी, तो मैं लुइसविल्ले, केंटकी में बड़ा हो रहा था। मेरे लिए रिकॉर्ड्स समय और भूगोल की यात्रा करने का एक जरिया थे, जो मुझे एक बहुत बड़ी दुनिया से जोड़ते थे। इसलिए मुझे यह बात बहुत पुरानी और दकियानूसी लगी कि केज रिकॉर्ड्स को लेकर इतने नकारात्मक थे।

When I read John Cage's book Silence, I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. For me, records were a mode of time travel and geographic travel, interfacing with a much larger world. So it seemed antiquated and backwards that Cage would be so down on them.

When I read John Cage's book Silence, I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. For me, records were a mode of time travel and geographic travel, interfacing with a much larger world. So it seemed antiquated and backwards that Cage would be so down on them.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Reflection 92%

जॉन केज के साथ जोन रेटालैक द्वारा लिए गए इंटरव्यूज़ की एक किताब है जिसका नाम 'म्यूजिकेज' है, जो उनकी मृत्यु की गर्मियों यानी 1992 में पूरी हुई थी। और आखिरी इंटरव्यूज़ में से एक में, वे नैनो टेक्नोलॉजी के बारे में बात करने के लिए बहुत उत्साहित थे। उनमें एक असली 'टेक्नोफिलिया' (तकनीक के प्रति प्रेम) दिखाई देता है, तकनीक को लेकर एक यूटोपिया जैसी उम्मीद है कि नैनो टेक्नोलॉजी लोगों को वह सब करने के लिए आज़ाद कर देगी जो वे वास्तव में करना चाहते हैं।

There's a book of interviews with John Cage by Joan Retallack called Musicage that was finished the summer that he died, in 1992. And in one of the last interviews, he was very excited to talk about nanotechnology. There's real technophilia from him, a kind of utopian embrace of the idea that nanotechnology will free people up to do what they really want to do.

There's a book of interviews with John Cage by Joan Retallack called Musicage that was finished the summer that he died, in 1992. And in one of the last interviews, he was very excited to talk about nanotechnology. There's real technophilia from him, a kind of utopian embrace of the idea that nanotechnology will free people up to do what they really want to do.

Topic Nature & Universe Technology
Tone: Passionate Sentiment: Positive Type: Observation 94%

गैस्ट्र डेल सोल (Gastr del Sol) के साथ हमेशा 'आर्ट सॉन्ग' (कलात्मक गीतों) का सवाल सामने आता था। मुझे लगता है कि जिम ओ'रूर्के बिल्कुल सही थे जब उन्होंने यह साफ किया कि आर्ट सॉन्ग की एक परंपरा रही है - जिसमें आइव्स हम दोनों के लिए एक कसौटी रहे हैं - और हम जो करते हैं वह इस परंपरा का हिस्सा नहीं है। उन विभाजनों को बहुत आगे बढ़ाना जरूरी नहीं था, लेकिन ज़ाहिर है कि उन्हें यह बात बेतुकी लगती थी कि कोई हमारे काम को उस परंपरा का हिस्सा बताए।

The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.

The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Reflection 94%

इस बात को समझने के लिए मेरा अपना अनुभव 'पंक' संगीत से आता है, जहाँ लोगों ने बमुश्किल पैसे जोड़कर एक रिकॉर्ड बनाने के लिए दोपहर भर के लिए स्टूडियो बुक किया होगा। पंक को ऐसा संगीत नहीं माना जाता जो संयोग पर आधारित हो, लेकिन कई बार मजबूरी और हालात का इसमें बहुत बड़ा हाथ होता है

My experience that undergirds that observation comes from punk, where people might have scraped together the money to be in the studio for an afternoon to make a record. Punk isn't a music that you think of as chance-based, but exigency has a lot to do with it.

My experience that undergirds that observation comes from punk, where people might have scraped together the money to be in the studio for an afternoon to make a record. Punk isn't a music that you think of as chance-based, but exigency has a lot to do with it.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Observation 95%

संगीत में संयोग के लिए इ चिंग (I Ching), पासा फेंकने या यार्रो के तिनके फेंकने की जरूरत नहीं होती। इसमें एक बेसुरे गिटार या ऐसे अन्य पलों को शामिल किया जा सकता है जिन्हें दोबारा दोहराया नहीं जा सकता - यहाँ तक कि एक बेसुरी लाइव परफॉर्मेंस से भी बढ़कर, क्योंकि बेसुरे गिटार का रिकॉर्ड पर गाने का हिस्सा बन जाना वाकई जादुई होता है। मैं यह ढोंग नहीं करूंगा कि यह उस कंपोजीशन का हिस्सा है - यह बिल्कुल बकवास बात है - लेकिन इस तरह के इत्तेफाक ही किसी चीज़ को अलग बनाते हैं। यही वो उंगलियों के निशान हैं जो इन रिकॉर्डिंग्स पर हर तरफ छपे होते हैं।

Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune guitar, or other impossible-to-replicate moments of awkwardness - even more so than an awkward, out-of-tune live performance, because there's something incredible about the way that an out-of-tune guitar becomes part of the song on a record. I won't be precious and say it's part of the composition - that's nonsensica l - but chance occurrences are so crucial to what's distinctive. It's the fingerprints all over so many of these recordings.

Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune guitar, or other impossible-to-replicate moments of awkwardness - even more so than an awkward, out-of-tune live performance, because there's something incredible about the way that an out-of-tune guitar becomes part of the song on a record. I won't be precious and say it's part of the composition - that's nonsensica l - but chance occurrences are so crucial to what's distinctive. It's the fingerprints all over so many of these recordings.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Observation 98%

मुझे याद है इम्प्रोवाइज्ड ड्रमर और कंपोजर माइकल इवांस ने मुझे एक कहानी सुनाई थी कि कैसे किसी को केज से मिलने और उन्हें एक रिकॉर्ड देने का मौका मिला, और जॉन केज ने बस मुस्कुराते हुए कहा था, "क्या आप जानते हैं कि इसे बजाने के लिए मेरे पास कुछ भी नहीं है?"

I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?"

I recall improvisational drummer and composer Michael Evans telling me a story of someone who had the opportunity to meet Cage and give him a record, and John Cage just smiled and said, "You know I have nothing to play this on?"

Themes #Simplicity
Tone: Humorous Sentiment: Positive Type: Observation 95%

उबुवेब (Ubuweb) के केनी गोल्डस्मिथ खुद को एक शौकिया आर्काइविस्ट बताते हैं, और लोग उबुवेब से फाइलें डाउनलोड कर सकते हैं - यह कोई स्ट्रीमिंग सर्विस नहीं है। लेकिन यह एक चमत्कार ही है कि यह अभी भी ऑनलाइन चल रहा है और वे सर्वर स्पेस के लिए मिलने वाले डोनेशन और लोगों की स्वयंसेवी मेहनत के दम पर इसे चला पा रहे हैं।

Kenny Goldsmith from Ubuweb describes himself as an amateur archivist, and people can download files from Ubuweb - it's not a streaming service. But it's a miracle that it's still online and they're able to make it work through the donations of server space and volunteer efforts.

Kenny Goldsmith from Ubuweb describes himself as an amateur archivist, and people can download files from Ubuweb - it's not a streaming service. But it's a miracle that it's still online and they're able to make it work through the donations of server space and volunteer efforts.

Topic Nature & Universe Technology
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Observation 92%

जैसे-जैसे इम्प्रोवाइज्ड म्यूजिक (सुधार आधारित संगीत) के ऑनलाइन आर्काइव बढ़ते जा रहे हैं, यह इसे बजाने के रोजमर्रा के अभ्यास जैसा बनता जा रहा है। इससे इस धारणा को बल मिलना कम हो जाता है कि इस संगीत के कुछ खास मास्टरपीस रिकॉर्डिंग ही इसके मानक हैं।

As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the idea of there being masterpieces of improvised music through benchmark recordings.

As there are more online archives of improvised music, it becomes more like the daily practice of playing it. It lessens the idea of there being masterpieces of improvised music through benchmark recordings.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Observation 96%

कितनी अजीब बात है कि संगीतकार उबुवेब जैसी जगहों को अपनी कला दिखाने की अनुमति देते हैं, और फिर चूँकि यह मुफ़्त है, इसलिए इसे शायद उन चीज़ों से ज़्यादा सुना जाता है जो अभी भी मुनाफ़ा कमाने की इस दौड़ से जूझ रही हैं।

What a strange thing - that musicians grant permission to places like Ubuweb, and then because it's free, it'll probably be listened to more often than something that is still wrestling with this idea of making a profit.

What a strange thing - that musicians grant permission to places like Ubuweb, and then because it's free, it'll probably be listened to more often than something that is still wrestling with this idea of making a profit.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Observation 95%

वरना इतिहास पूरी तरह से सपाट होकर रह जाएगा, और लोगों को यह लगने लगेगा कि सब कुछ हमेशा से उपलब्ध और सुलभ रहा है। एक बात जिसने मुझे सबसे ज्यादा प्रभावित किया, वह यह था कि अलग-अलग समय में प्रायोगिक संगीत (experimental music) का परिदृश्य अलग-अलग रूप में दिखाई देता था, इस आधार पर कि कोई भौगोलिक रूप से कहाँ है, क्या उसे लाइव परफॉर्मेंस देखने का मौका मिल रहा है, और उस खास समय में क्या रिलीज़ हुआ था।

Otherwise the history just gets completely flattened out, and people imagine that everything was always available and accessible. One of the things that struck me was the way in which the landscape of experimental music seemed different at different points in time, on the basis of where one was situated geographically, if one had access to live performances, and what was released at a particular time.

Otherwise the history just gets completely flattened out, and people imagine that everything was always available and accessible. One of the things that struck me was the way in which the landscape of experimental music seemed different at different points in time, on the basis of where one was situated geographically, if one had access to live performances, and what was released at a particular time.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Neutral Type: Observation 95%

'आर्काइव' या अभिलेखागार शब्द सुनने में बड़ा आश्वस्त करने वाला लगता है, लेकिन दस्तावेज़ी सामग्रियों के लंबे समय तक सुरक्षित रहने को लेकर मेरे मन में कई चिंताएँ हैं।

The word 'archive' seems so reassuring, but I have a lot ofconcern over the longevity of documentary materials.

The word 'archive' seems so reassuring, but I have a lot ofconcern over the longevity of documentary materials.

Topic Life & Existence Mortality
Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Reflection 92%

मेरे लिए रिकॉर्ड्स हमेशा से समय यात्रा का सबसे अद्भुत माध्यम रहे हैं, और यही वजह है कि यह जानना बहुत अहम हो जाता है कि कोई चीज़ कब प्रसारित हुई थी, और उसे पाँच लोग देख रहे थे या पचास हज़ार।

Records have always been the most extraordinary form of time travel for me, and that's why it matters to know when something was circulated, and if it had an audience of five or 50,000.

Records have always been the most extraordinary form of time travel for me, and that's why it matters to know when something was circulated, and if it had an audience of five or 50,000.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 92%

मैं जो भी संगीत तैयार करता हूँ, अगर उसमें कोई एक बात समान है, तो वह यह है कि उसमें दोहराव बहुत कम होता है। मेरा विचार यह होता है कि जिस जगह से शुरुआत हुई, उसका अंत उससे बिल्कुल अलग जगह पर हो, और सुनने वालों को ऐसा महसूस हो कि संगीतकार में कोई बदलाव आया है या वह पूरी तरह से बदल गया है।

If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should end in a place very different from where it began, and that you've heard musicians undergo a change or be irreversibly transformed.

If the records that I make have one thing in common, it's that there is little recapitulation, and the idea is that it should end in a place very different from where it began, and that you've heard musicians undergo a change or be irreversibly transformed.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 95%

अठारहवीं सदी के इंग्लैंड में एक अजीब सी प्रथा थी—एक ऐसा 'पिक्चरस्क हर्मिट' (तस्वीर जैसा दिखने वाला संन्यासी) किराए पर रखना जो आपकी जागीर के किसी खूबसूरत खंडहर में रहा करता था। मुझे इसमें आज के दौर के कुछ पॉप-संगीतकारों और सनकी कलाकारों की झलक मिलती है—जिन्हें बढ़ावा भी दिया जाता है और बर्दाश्त भी किया जाता है।

In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated.

In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated.

Topic Society & World Media
Tone: Sarcastic Sentiment: Mixed Type: Observation 92%

मेरे लिए यह अच्छी बात है कि संगीत रचना के ऐसे अलग-अलग अंदाज़ किसी रिकॉर्ड में साथ-साथ रहें, क्योंकि उनके परिणाम बहुत अलग और दिलचस्प होते हैं।

For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 95%

मैं पन्नों के लिए कविताएँ नहीं लिखता क्योंकि लेखन के इस क्षेत्र की मेरी इच्छा संगीत रचना से पूरी हो जाती है। "ऑर्नामेंटल हर्मिट" गाना लिखना मेरे लिए तुलनात्मक रूप से बेहद आसान था, जो कि मेरे मामले में एक दुर्लभ बात है।

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 92%

वाद्य यंत्रों की धुनें निश्चित रूप से रचित रचनाएँ होती हैं, हालाँकि मैं सहज रूप से इस शब्द का इस्तेमाल नहीं करता। उनके नोट्स लिखे नहीं जाते, और धुनें अक्सर आपस में मिलकर या सहयोग से तैयार होती हैं। मैं हमेशा ऐसे लोगों के साथ बजाना चुनता हूँ जिनकी राय और योगदान मुझे पसंद हो।

The instrumental pieces are compositions, certainly, although that's not the language that I instinctively use. They're not scored, and arrangements are often arrived at collaboratively. I always choose to play with people whose input I desire.

The instrumental pieces are compositions, certainly, although that's not the language that I instinctively use. They're not scored, and arrangements are often arrived at collaboratively. I always choose to play with people whose input I desire.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Positive Type: Reflection 95%

अलग-अलग विधाओं के साथ मिलकर काम करने का सबसे बड़ा खतरा यह होता है कि काम का बँटवारा बहुत सख्त हो जाता है—मेरे मामले में, सिर्फ संगीत तक सीमित रह जाने का खतरा। जब मैं कोई एल्बम बनाता हूँ, तो मैं संगीत लिखता हूँ, बोल लिखता हूँ, उसका विज़ुअल डिज़ाइन तैयार करता हूँ, और भी बहुत कुछ करता हूँ। मुझे यह सब करने का मौका मिलता है।

The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck doing the music. When I make an album, I write music, I write lyrics, I come up with the visual design, etc. I get to do all of that stuff.

The danger of these collaborations across disciplines is in having too strict of a division of labor - in my case, of getting stuck doing the music. When I make an album, I write music, I write lyrics, I come up with the visual design, etc. I get to do all of that stuff.

Tone: Reflective Sentiment: Mixed Type: Reflection 95%