The house of the triangle in my music system is the house of synthesis logics. For me, this symbol is about integration, or synthesis. Going back to the house of the rectangle, the house of ideas, or architectonic structures, the Tri-Axium Writings [Braxton's three-volume set of books on his "re-philosophical system," published by Frog Peak Press, 1987] would make the combined information connection tri-centric. The Tri-Axium Writings would be a component of what I would later come to call "tri-centric." By that, I'm only saying that the concept of "tri-centric" would involve more than simply music compositions, and more than simply ideas, but rather a systemic context to apply that information (and those connections). That's why when I talk of my work, and when I use the word "tri-centric," I'm referring to what I call a "thought unit," as opposed to a composition, or one methodology. The idea of a "tri-centric thought unit" is a way of expressing the interconnection between the Tri-Axium Writings--which was an attempt to define a world perspective based on particular focuses--and specific examples of that focus, and then questions and answers, or dialectical extensions of that focus, and the music/architectonic system and symbolic ritual holistic system. The Tri-Axium Writings would give me an opportunity to have a context of ideas and perspectives, which is in the house of the rectangle. This information would also include schematic modules that reduce the philosophical particular (target) arguments into "transpersonal" logic associations. [These schematics resemble the diagrams students used to parse grammatical elements of sentences, only in this case the circuitry is directed toward abstract social and philosophical/metaphysical concepts, charting their relationships]. The Tri-Axium Writings would also be a context where I would define my own terms, and create my own language. This for me was not a one-dimensional experience, but was rather a chance to establish the philosophical foundation of my music in the sense of given specifics to a general subject area; internal specific subject perspectives related to that subject area; questions and answers on one hand, and then coming back to the integration schematics, which is actually in the next triangle set under that--to define my own set of terms, and to establish my own emotional and feeling perspectives about the information I was writing about.
...of course the Christian component comes with a Catch-22; the whole idea of the image of God being the image of someone other than yourself is inherently not healthy.
and, from the interview linked below:
Rather than figure out who killed Cock Robin in 1722, my system is directed to the next thousand years, and how we as a species can set constructs into place that can give us an opportunity to make fresh mistakes as opposed to old mistakes.
posted by Brad Larcen 8/08/2002[edit]
