All shall have prizes: it’s Olga’s turn

These are two absurd pieces of news.

To begin with, Ms Neuwirth’s works are a specimen of the most awful noise art ever invented – that is, apart from Xenakis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhLqMKGZloQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPTDMmq59qA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpN0v_o1kY4

It’s ‘well-done’ in the way a root canal treatment or a cancer operation can be well-done. There is no aesthetic awareness present, not even some residu of artistic attempt.

It’s sonic art, and also pretentious rubbish. You don’t even have to be ‘conservative’ to hear that. Also it is extremely conventional, harking back to half a century ago when this stuff was presented as ‘new’ and ‘progressive’, a musically dark period indeed. Repeating it today is reactionary to the extreme. What does it contribute to culture, to society, to civilisation? To a better understanding of the world, of the human condition? Merely asking such questions show the level on which such parasitic art ‘operates’.

When she writes for the theatre, it’s just silly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZlCGirm268

Second, that Ms Neuwirth thinks that her work is suited to something like opera, would be utterly humoristic if it were not so sad. No doubt, regie-oper directors will love her opera, they deserve each other.

It is not music, but a sonic plaything of an establishment that has its mind still stuck in the dark hole of the sixties of the last century. A musical audience won’t be interested, but that does not matter, since such art is kept-up by artificial means.

I always think that when women have a go at sonic art, they try to outdo their male peers in terms of nonsense and aggression, to avoid any association with female occupations like needlework, sensitivity or breast feeding. I’m sure Freud would have some poignant things to say about the phenomenon.