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The Warning - Escape The Mind

This indefinite role of the creator further complicates the role of the artist and what impact they may have on the creation of particular works... their impact comes within a particular historical horizon. The artist is limited by his or her place in the world and to some extent is at the mercy of what they can create. The artist may have the knowledge of how to create these works, but their impact cannot be known without the communities that make the works possible... because they cannot control the impact of the art that they create after it is completed. They may be responsible in part for the work’s revealing qualities, but are not the sole reason why a work may impact the world as it does. The truth or its unfolding has a much richer process than simply applying paint to a canvas or in playing particular notes. These creations must resonate within a community in order to make a profound impact upon its people... Often times, it is not one, but many artists who create multiple works that make up a style which defines an epoch... Therefore, the unfolding of truth is not simply a matter of creating a work, but creating a work that impacts a whole community in a profound manner.

The process of creation has no real bearing on the outcome, which is the point at which revealing occurs. What is missing is the dynamism that art can have in cases of music. Even if we are to put aside the process of creation, in music we find a more difficult task of pointing to where we can find revealing. Is the point at which revealing occurs in the recording of a song, in its playing, or in its written composition? The answer to this question alters the evental nature of art and music tremendously. If we limit events to the playing of a song, then all recorded material has a different kind of eventful nature and is thus a different form of revealing. 


The Warning - Escape The Mind
  • Released on: April 14, 2015
  • Released on: Escape the Mind album
  • Genre: Rock, Indie Rock

"The Warning learned to play rock songs, often via the Rock Band video game series, and posted videos of their performances to YouTube. In 2014, at 12 years old, Paulina Villarreal Vélez was profiled in the women's drumming publication Tom Tom Magazine."

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