Shannon BONG by ELKA BONG

The imagination that responds to music is personal and associative and logical, tinged with affect, tinged with bodily rhythm, tinged with dream, but concerned with a wealth of formulations for its wealth of wordless knowledge, its whole knowledge of emotional and organic experience, of vital impulse, balance, conflict, the ways of living and dying and feeling. Because no assignment of meaning is conventional, none is permanent beyond the sound that passes; yet the brief association was a flash of understanding. The lasting effect is, like the first effect of speech on the development of the mind, to make things conceivable rather than to store up propositions. Not communication but insight is the gift of music.
~ Susanne K Langer, Philosophy In A New Key

Tracklist

1.	Psychoanalytic theory is not helpful	10:04

2.	Form and content experienced as one	10:16

3.	The fallacy of self-expression	10:16

4.	Music as the ‘algebra of feelings’	10:16

Credits

released September 22, 2023

Al Margolis - piano board [1], Roland MC 202 Micro Composer and Korg Guitar Synth [2][3], transformed telephone answering machine message [4]
Walter Wright - IFMSynth
with
Shannon Lewis - flute, effects

Originally an artist with a paintbrush, Shannon made her most important decision at a young age when she decided to instead pursue an instrument she could not make even the slightest whisper. This decision put Shannon’s life onto a new path, and transformed her into a dedicated musical artist.

Tracks mixed by AL, titles from Chapter VIII Contents in Langer’s book.

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