la folie circulaire (2002)
for violin, tape
By Kyle Bartlett
American
American
LA FOLIE CIRCULAIRE: attraction, compulsion, repetition, and repulsion. The terrible, glorious truth of nature, washing over me, suffocating me. I am all and I am nothing. I am the truth, and I deny truth. I struggle to protect myself from the rotten fecundity that threatens to overcome me, yet I secretly desire the coming annihilation. A dreaded euphoria fills me, and I am bleeding. I am all and I am nothing.
- KB
Other works by Kyle Bartlett:
“It is thus possible to create a tradition that is held together by strict rules, and that is also successful, to some extent. But is it desirable to support such a tradition to the exclusion of everything else?...These are questions I intend to ask...And to these questions my answer will be a firm and resounding NO.
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--Paul K. Feyerabend, Against Method