Influence

Love Letter Day 7

Passage from Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor’s Music, by You Nakai (2021: Nakai, 227)

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A matter of influence and not control.

Unlike the latter, the former is a kind

of co

ordination

[…]difficult to perceive immediately or

experience directly […] it goes beyond

the usual scales of observation

in size—either too big or too small—or in

complexity—

either

too subtle

or too complex;

yet it produces an effect that can be felt.

You produce an effect that can be felt.

From the improbably and immensely readable 700+ page behemoth academic survey of the work of David Tudor, Reminded by the Instruments

1. Formatting added for emphasis.