Episode 13: Incipient Intentions

"Music points to true language in the sense that content is apparent in it, but it does so at the cost of unambiguous meaning, which has migrated to the languages of intentionality. And as though Music, that most eloquent of all languages, needed consoling for the curse of ambiguity - its mythic aspect, intentions are poured into it." Theodor Adorno, 'Music and Language - A Fragment'

Final episode for a couple months. Given little foresight, Beholder Halfway has often amounted to sociological interrogation of issues around popular musics, but there are severe limits to the sociological imagination's capacity to inform music. With this in mind, on this finale episode, I wanted to elicit statements, at times profound and others banal, by musicians about music, as a way of marking the limits of the sociological imagination.

Image: still from Morgan Fisher, Projection Instructions (1976)

Tracklist
TJ Hustler, The Individual You

Black Warrior, Move

Gigi Masin, Miren Miren Maitea

Interview with John Coltrane

Amiri Baraka/the Advanced Workers, You Was Dancin' You Need to be Marchin'

Edgar Froese, Police Disco

Linda Perhacs,  BBC Interview

Phil Niblock, Hurdy Hurry

Big L, Put It On (acapella)

Fatima Al Qadiri, Curfew

Nurse With Wound, Alien [Act Side Second Band]

Interview with Nina Simone

Test Dept., Slow Hunger

Interview with the Supremes

Henri Roger, Au Dela Du Langage

Interview with GG Allin

Patchfinder, Das Herz

Interview with Dead Kennedys

Interview with Crass

Guy Debord, Critique de la Separation (audio excerpt)

Interview with Karlhein Stockhausen

Harald Grosskopf, 1847 Earth

Interview with MF Grimm

Michael Wadleigh (Dir.), Woodstock (1970) (audio excerpt)

Interview with Gucci Mane

Interview with Garth Brooks

Inga Copeland, Advice for Young Girls (w/ Actress)