Sbagliando s'impera

Brian Eno pubblica su Edge una conversazione in cui spiega la sua evoluzione da architetto a giardiniere. Il concetto può essere utilmente applicato ad altri campi di attività, ed è perciò una riflessione che vi propongo di condividere.

Edge: Composers as Gardeners

My topic is the shift from ‘architect’ to ‘gardener’, where ‘architect’ stands for ‘someone who carries a full picture of the work before it is made’, to ‘gardener’ standing for ‘someone who plants seeds and waits to see exactly what will come up’. I will argue that today’s composer are more frequently ‘gardeners’ than ‘architects’ and, further, that the ‘composer as architect’ metaphor was a transitory historical blip.

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