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Some Sadomasochistic Aspects of Musical Pleasure

Some Sadomasochistic Aspects of Musical Pleasure The author posits that a dynamic of sadomasochistic pleasure is at work in contempo-rary music. The rise both of compositions that equal a set of technical instructions and of perhaps impossible requirements upon performers can be seen to make the act of taking pleasure in their execution a form of masochism. The audiences of increasingly intellectualized musical styles could be said to enjoy a similar relationship to performance. And in the more physical “noise music,” the intended effect is often not auditory pleasure but suffering. The author recounts a number of sources in his discussion, from Freud to Nietzsche, Adorno, Schumann and Stockhausen. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Leonardo Music Journal MIT Press

Some Sadomasochistic Aspects of Musical Pleasure

Leonardo Music Journal , Volume December 2002 (12) – Dec 1, 2002

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Publisher
MIT Press
Copyright
© 2002 ISAST
ISSN
0961-1215
eISSN
1531-4812
DOI
10.1162/096112102762295098
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Abstract

The author posits that a dynamic of sadomasochistic pleasure is at work in contempo-rary music. The rise both of compositions that equal a set of technical instructions and of perhaps impossible requirements upon performers can be seen to make the act of taking pleasure in their execution a form of masochism. The audiences of increasingly intellectualized musical styles could be said to enjoy a similar relationship to performance. And in the more physical “noise music,” the intended effect is often not auditory pleasure but suffering. The author recounts a number of sources in his discussion, from Freud to Nietzsche, Adorno, Schumann and Stockhausen.

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Leonardo Music JournalMIT Press

Published: Dec 1, 2002

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