Questions
Concerning Music Technology
Let me conclude by addressing again Heidegger's notion that art has a role
in our relationship to technology. Indeed, that notion would be correct
under the assumption - opposite to Heidegger's, though - that technology
is not a metaphysical, autonomous process blind to the cultural context
and external to the process and the experience of art - but, instead, a
dimension within which and by which artists themselves can signify their
role in the social context. This means that artists, musicians among them,
can be interpreters of technology, provided that they actively participate
in the knowledge domain and the hermeneutic dimensions of the tÈchne
of music.
However, Heidegger's notion would be tautologic under the assumption - to
which I subscribe, but opposite to Heidegger's, again - that an artist's
work actually always implies a dynamical, innovative approach on technology,
as only by questioning and transforming her/his own tÈchne can artists
determine the strategies and methods by which they do create something.
To be able to speak their language - and to speak to others - artists challenge
the language and the methods by which they speak it - thereby challenging
others as well.
