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The deconstruction of a system

sun 23 mar 2025
Theme: Crosslinks

Electronic Frequencies Wednesday 26 March 23:00 CET.

A musical instrument is a system. Every system has a whole history of development. If an instrument is to be playable by everyone, agreements are made for this.

The development, and the agreements to achieve perfection, can even take centuries. During this development, existence already yields its creative fruits. The search for beauty in sound and composition. Like-minded people find each other during the instrumental lessons, the concerts with every weather, the tuning, or fine-tuning before beauty is made audible. This ritual every time. The player of this instrument knows the rules, trained, after much practice our feelings are interpreted by the fingers that touch the instrument in a virtuoso way. The history, the construction of the instrument, the finger exercises, the tuning of the instrument, the excitement of the audience beforehand, the walk to the concert hall, taking a seat, the silence beforehand…….

All part of a system of civilization and beauty. Until it is demolished, or even set on fire.