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Haskins, Rob
Perspectives of new music, 07/2014, Volume: 52, Issue: 2Journal Article
Haskins talks about Buddhism. For Robert Morris, Buddhism encourages listeners to cultivate undivided attention as music unfolds from moment to moment; the attending listener notes events as they pass, but is not caught by particular feelings or thoughts, nor does she indulge the familiar temptation to reify the music as a semi-rigid object whose trajectory--expressive, structural, or rhetorical--remains more or less the same from one performance to the next. Indeed, Morris proposes that, through sheer attention, a listener can develop new ways of perceiving time, not only to perceive a thing-in-itself but to become one with it.
