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
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Frightening and boring at the very same time. But then "art" and "fart" only one letter apart.
As are comic and cosmic, as Vladimir Nabokov observed.
I 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.
Or was it three?
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