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Can there be hard meaning in the abstract understructure? Music is, after all, totally abstract. Yet, we characterize musical content as happy, sad, lively, turgid, martial, romantic. How do we arrive at such information identification, which is rather universally held? Some meanings attached to musical composition are associations to reality, some are drawn from man's own psychophysical structure, his kinesthetic relationship to the music. So we say of music: it is totally abstract, but there are aspects of it which may be interpreted with reference to shared meaning. The abstract conveys the essential meaning, cutting through the conscious to the unconscious. Donis A. Dondis, A Primer Of Visual Literacy. The episode features: Inspired School Of Astral Music, 1958 – 2009, Porn Sword Tobacco, Daniel Schmidt and M. Geddes Gengras.
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