CYCLE 104
1. INSTRUMENTAL UGLINESS AND BEAUTY. Compared to the violin, the guitar is
musically an ugly instrument which relies upon a reactive, or
plucking/strumming, technique vis-à-vis its strings. Yet both violins and guitars are arguably
bodily or 'worldly' instruments ... having a mundane significance, in
flesh/touch sensuality and womb/id sensibility, as germane to negative nature
and positive civilization respectively, the former masculine and the latter
feminine.
2. MODES OF GUITAR UGLINESS. To distinguish modes of ugliness with regard
to the guitar ... from the most ugly mode of single-note plucking without slide
to the least ugly mode of single-note plucking with slide via the more
(relative to most) ugly mode of chordal strumming
without slide and the less (relative to least) ugly mode of chordal
strumming with slide.
3. MODES OF VIOLIN BEAUTY. To distinguish modes of beauty with regard to
the violin ... from the least beautiful mode of single-note pizzicato to the
most beautiful mode of single-note bowing via the less (relative to least)
beautiful mode of double-stopped pizzicato and the more (relative to most)
beautiful mode of double-stopped bowing.
4. ATOMIC BREAKDOWN OF GUITAR UGLINESS. Hence, with regard to the guitar, from the
alpha-most technique of elemental electron particles to the alpha-least technique
of elemental electron wavicles via the alpha-more
(relative to most) technique of molecular electron particles and the alpha-less
(relative to least) technique of molecular electron wavicles.
5. ATOMIC BREAKDOWN OF VIOLIN BEAUTY. Hence, with regard to the violin, from the
omega-least technique of elemental neutrino particles to the omega-most
technique of elemental neutrino wavicles via the
omega-less (relative to least) technique of molecular neutrino particles and
the omega-more (relative to most) technique of molecular neutrino wavicles.
6. IDEOLOGICAL DIVISIBILITY OF GUITARISTS. One could say that guitarists are divisible,
relevant to the realist essence of primal taking, the quality of negative
nature, between 'stupid' and 'smart' ... according to the absence or presence
of a slide, the former comparatively 'stupid' and the latter comparatively
'smart'. For the 'stupid' modes of
guitar playing correspond to realist science (elemental) and politics (molecular),
whereas the 'smart' modes of guitar playing correspond to realist economics
(molecular) and religion (elemental).
7. IDEOLOGICAL DIVISIBILITY OF VIOLINISTS. Likewise, one could say that violinists are
divisible, relevant to the humanist essence of supreme giving, the quality of
positive civilization, between 'stupid' and 'smart' ... according to the
presence or absence of pizzicato, the former comparatively 'stupid' and the
latter comparatively 'smart'. For the
'stupid' modes of violin playing correspond to humanist science (elemental) and
politics (molecular), whereas the 'smart' modes of violin playing correspond to
humanist economics (molecular) and religion (elemental).
8. CONTRARY FATALITIES OF GUITARISTS AND
VIOLINISTS. Compared to the 'smartness'
of violinists, who almost invariably use a bow, thereby aligning themselves
with the omega-more and omega-most modes of playing technique in a bias towards
humanist economics and religion, most guitarists would seem to be 'stupid',
since biased, by and large, towards the alpha-more and alpha-most techniques of
guitar playing - the former political and the latter scientific, a distinction,
in short, between chordal strumming and single-note
plucking, neither of which have reference to the use of a slide. In fact, the use of a plectrum to enhance
plucking and/or strumming is almost mandatory with these alpha-more and
alpha-most modes of guitar playing.
