a good way to know if one is "in the moment", according to Zen practices, is that when meditating, and someone comes up from behind and goes "BOOYAKA!" ---- if you are startled, you are not here of this time, but asleep or adrift in some other time; and if you are not startled at all, you are awake and "in the moment". (it being, ofcourse, preferrable to be in themoment rather than not)
it seems to me that the time induced by good techno is a kind of eternal present. the listener is locked into the immediate present by the insistant beats, but is simultaneously pulled toward some kind of Forever. the "Now" eclipsed by infinity, a split moment forever balanced between repetition and difference ---- each moment is unique and nuanced, but all exists within a continuum of sameness ---- a field of homogenous specificity ---- and non-specific homogeneity.
thoughts anyone?
it seems to me that the time induced by good techno is a kind of eternal present. the listener is locked into the immediate present by the insistant beats, but is simultaneously pulled toward some kind of Forever. the "Now" eclipsed by infinity, a split moment forever balanced between repetition and difference ---- each moment is unique and nuanced, but all exists within a continuum of sameness ---- a field of homogenous specificity ---- and non-specific homogeneity.
thoughts anyone?
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