in psychedelia, the subject, the I who suffers, is dissolved.
soul music is all soliloquies, impassioned, made by a particular self
at a particular point in historical time, a particular situation,
and speaking out of that, joyful or lamenting.
a particular, coherent, slice of the timestream, point of personal history,
lurid as a bruise.
with coltrane, as a rule, you still have a subject, the aspirant/seeker
reaching out, striving, attaining, reaching out again, looking for lift-off.
the quintessential motion is climbing, clambering, ascent.
with davis it's already desubjectivised. it's turned inside out
and subjective states become landscapes. it happens on the
horizontal. there's no transcendence posited, allowed for,
no attempt to bootstrap to a higher plane.
it's doubtful whether there is any movement, in the usual
sense. there is change but here the miles move through us
the still point of all becomings.
with coltrane there is variation in affect and intenstiy
with davis variations in landscape and atmosphere.
the desubjectification leads to this turning inside out, and it's disquietingly objective quality.
feelings becoming enviroments