… echoes long ago

摘要

Focusing on guitarist/composer Jimi Hendrix and composer/improviser Cornelius Cardew, this essay considers parts or aspects of artists' work that are impossible to know, either because of an unfulfilled potential resulting from their early demise or because of modes of production and categorisation that prevent or obscure a more complete reception of their work. Taking common speculation about the possible trajectories of such artists as a starting point, the author goes on to consider how only a small part of their creative process can ever be known and how we may tend to compensate for this either by partaking in a mythologising process through engagement with a recorded oeuvre or, perhaps more creatively, by marking their memory in a participatory way in works that have been left behind to grow with the passage of time.View full textDownload full textKeywordsImpossibility, Mythologising, Possibilities, Recording, Speculation, TrajectoryRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07494467.2010.587312