No- now modernism is violence. Like the movie Fight Club, the rapper Eminem, and certain shoot- em up video games, Lachenmann s music can be viewed, romantically as is my wont, as a last will and testament to this past bloody century by its quite spoiled survivors. You see, despite his surname s translation, Lachenmann adolescently refuses to crack a smile. How time is marked by substance is said to be content. Musical content would be rendered meaningless and be replaced by referential gesture.
Time refuses, though, to be ignored.
I mourn this a bit. This wealth has been taken for granted. I m always doing, hearing, seeing, but seldom writing.