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Personally, I find the sound of an acoustic guitar burning on a campfire as interesting as the sound of one being played by a guitar virtuoso.
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Forgive my curtness, but this really sounds like a personal problem. I mean, it really, really does. Is your "art" done with the intention of shock value? It certainly seems that sentence was concocted out of a need to shock. I will hope it was an exagerration made for effect.
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By your fairly narrow definition of what constitutes the playing of a guitar, a stringless guitar cannot be tuned, and therefore cannot be played - this is obviously not the case.
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My "fairly narrow definition?" That's a laugh...it's more like a case of your personal exceedingly liberal definition of the guitar and guitar playing.
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The sounds that I have produced over the years using guitars have rarely required them to be strung or tuned, or even touched, but they were played nonetheless. Sometimes to destruction.
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Now we get into both the literal and philosophical definition of exactly what a guitar is. Because if you're "playing" a guitar without strings, Florya, you might as well add whatever gizmos or whatever method to your madness you've got going there to a piece of wood or whatever instead. Why don't you just "play" a department store mannequin or a stuffed rainbow trout?
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seems you're using the guitar shape merely as a prop.
Is it some sort of political statement you've got going there? ...something about the phallocentric nature of guitars? (haha) I know, I know you're some sort of Fluxus enthusiast, right? Hey, remember Woody Guthrie: This Machine Kills Fascists. Ya know, Woody did just a wee bit more for culture than the Fluxists did.
I swear, as fucked-up as this board is, I never expected a reply as bonkers as yours. It's not so much as what you do is completely bonkers as is the off the wall way you stated your so-called "argument" in all seriousness. And just in case anyone is in the dark, I'm someone that likes a lot of performance art and performance artists.
I surely didn't want to get into name-calling again, but damn, that
shit left me no choice, Mr. Fluxus Maciunas.