"... distraction does something to musical sounds. And what it does is to make them formless. But by this, I don't mean that musical sounds become shapeless per se, so much as distraction disturbs the perception of music's formal structure in a way that makes "form" irrelevant to the experience."

Thoughts on "music's form".

Excerpt from ELDRITCH PRIEST's BORING FORMLESS NONSENSE [Experimental Music and the Aesthetics of Failure]

"... the avant-garde is less a site of resistance and more "a system for instrumentalizing contradiction.""

     ELDRITCH PRIEST citing PAUL MANN

Modern Troubadour

An Opening

"One and the same musical activity might, at one and the same time, be about the trajectory of a body in space, the dynamic emergence or signification of an affective state, the achievement of a goal and the unfolding of an embodied perspective"

     IAN CROSS

"Sounds stripped of intention do not cease to signify, but neither do they say anything in particular"

     ELDRITCH PRIEST