Re: Experiment IV

[rabensam@earthlink.net (Richard Bensam)]

In article <199608050107.KAA11448@ptijgw.ptij.or.jp>, sumita@ptij.or.jp
(Sumita Mikio) wrote:

> >"Press execute" makes me 
> >think of the consequences involved with pressing this button. There may be 
> >bad/good things as a result - on the screen and indirectly also for the
person 
> >in front of the computer. 
> 
>  Kate's song evokes further thinkings. What is bad or what is good?
> Good/bad for what/who? Kate sings,"It could feel falling in love/
> It could feel so bad/But it could feel so good/It could sing you 
> to sleep/But that dream is your enemy."  Listening to this part, 
> it is a song of extasy/transcendence, a song of ambiguity 
> of extasy/transcendence, like "Hounds of Love". Now I think of 
> Paul Valery's "Young Parque". It is also a poem about 
> ambiguity of extasy/pleasure. But Parque leaves extasy/pleasure (night) 
> and goes to rationality(day). What is Kate's attitude 
> toward these ambiguities of technology or of extasy/transcendence? 
> Perhaps, Kate affirms this ambiguity and thnks of somekind of balance.
> Or she thnks of somekind of a larger whole, where all goods and bads
> are relativized and given proper position as a part of ever-circulating
> flux,as in " The Mornig Fog". In "Experiment IV" melody and beats are 
> so plain and cool,I think.It seems distance itself from lyrics to tell
> think it ourselves. But this distance and wind that blows there
> is so quiet and gentle like Buddha's smile.
> 
>  Sumita Mikio
>   sumita@ptij.or.jp
>   From hot and wet August Japan

I think Kate herself would be quite thrilled by a response like this!


RAB
from a hot and wet August in New York City