In the 1980s, Finnish artist Mauri Antero Numminen set to music excerpts from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. My favorite: “Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.” [Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.]
M.A. Numminen sings Wittgenstein (UbuWeb Sound)
[Translation by C.K. Ogden.]
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
M.A. Numminen sings Wittgenstein
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Frightening and boring at the very same time. But then "art" and "fart" only one letter apart.
ReplyDeleteAs are comic and cosmic, as Vladimir Nabokov observed.
ReplyDeleteI found these settings odd and sometimes funny. To each her or his own. (And by the way, I love Wittgenstein.)
I just had a chat with Wittgenstein in another universe, and he said he loves you too.
ReplyDeleteOr was it three?