This passage mentioned the blurring between the artist and the musician. The author takes the reader through multiple examples which engage with the crossroads of different media as a form of art. It commends people who’ve become “Media Transgressors” by integrating multiple disciplines in their art, and mentions the importance of the Fluxus movement in all of this. The Fluxus movement – experimental pieces focusing on the artistic process rather than the finished product – seems fascinating to me. Especially since I was educated in a time where the lines between disciplines in the arts are already blurred. These media transgression examples remind me a lot of what we do in Interactive Media and Live Coding. On an initial level, we are working in the intersection between music and coding. This practice inherently challenges what music is (as we’ve seen by previous reading grappling with music as a series of patterns or not…), and does so by integrating a completely different discipline. On a second level, all of us come from different backgrounds, and bring in something different into our performances. In some way, could one claim that we are also making small transgressions with our experimental pieces? Irrespective of this, the reading mentioned one of my favorite pieces, the Intonarumori by Luigi Russolo Corale. This artworks, set of instruments, was revolutionary for experimental music. It has a very interesting aesthetic and an even richer sound. Here is a video, so you can see/hear it as well.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=BYPXAo1cOA4 This, I believe, is an incredible example of how artists challenge what music is. What happens when musicians use non-musical sounds? I am further interested in finding the parallels between some of Russolo’s sounds and some of modern electronic music. The reader also mentioned the interaction between club culture and art, and how they both influence each other. Can you also hear how some samples may come from this? Overall, I find this reading to be very interesting and useful in providing us with a lot of examples of transformational artworks that push the boundaries of art and music. 

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