„Approaching“
If
metaphor is accepted as a figure of speech commonly used in artistic
language from times immemorial, the language of poetry, literature, and
not only in literature, why should not it be presented in radio art as
well, in a musically-acoustic experiment, in a radiophonic composition?
Of course, I don’t refer to the music broadcasted by radio, as well as
the one that came to us from concert stages or from any place outside
the radio, I exclusively refer to music and musically-acoustic
radiophonic compositions created only by media. I refer to the acoustic
poetry, to that new form of poetry which also brought along with itself
metaphor to the area of radio-media. The power and pleasure of a poetic
metaphor is the fact that it obliges one to figure out its meaning left
by a poet to his reader. Its meanings are polysemantic and
multileveled. The ancient and inexhaustible interaction which has been
repeated by digital art of today, but in a different form. The title
itself, “Approaching”, is a metaphor, just as an artwork in the whole
it is. A listener is to make an effort to find out or, to be precise,
attribute it his own interpretation. In this way, the composition will
be as much his own as it was the author¹s one previously. Having
finished the work, the author is obliged to remain silent; his
additional explanations would deactivate the imagination of the
listener. As paradox as it could be,
it could turn the listener
from the right way. Naturally, there is also a risk for the author to
be wrongly understood. But could the author truly be wrongly
understood? And is it important at all since that it has nothing to do
with the secret messages, neither with any of simplified ideology, nor
with entertaining story. The point is in free interactive poetry of two
authors that one who created the original work, having offered it to
everyone and signed it below, and that one, anonymous radio listener,
who, on the base of that heard created for himself a new and
independent work. It can happen that those two authorial works entirely
or partially are compatible, but it must not be the obligation of none
of them.
Arsenije Jovanovic