After Debussy by Johnson Julian;

Author:Johnson, Julian; [Johnson, Julian;]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780190066826
Publisher: OxfordUP
Published: 2019-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

But it is precisely this refusal of linguistic sense and the concomitant cultivation of an opening to the landscape outside of language, choosing the sense of the senses over that of syntactical forms, that Debussy’s music, and the idea of music that comes after him, takes as its primary focus. The result is a quite different relation ‘of sentient to sensible’. David Abram quotes a striking passage in which Merleau-Ponty explores the reciprocity of this relation as being like that ‘between the sleeper and his sleep’:

I breathe slowly and deeply to call forth sleep, and suddenly, one might say, my mouth communicates with some immense external lung that calls my breath forth and forces it back. A certain respiratory rhythm, desired by me just a moment ago, becomes my very being, and sleep, intended until then as a signification, turns itself into a situation. Similarly I offer my ear or my gaze with the anticipation of a sensation, and suddenly the sensible catches my ear or my gaze; I deliver over a part of my body, or even my entire body, to this manner of vibrating and of filling space named ‘blue’ or ‘red’.46

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