diff --git a/Can/can.md b/Can/can.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b60da6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Can/can.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +**can** + +I am a member of a secret society. It has its own gospel in the form of a still evolving story, it is not yet written, +that starts with Grandmother Czuckay exclaiming that she would not set foot upon MS Wilhelm Gustloff, since one can not walk on water, +it has no boards. As the official history explains the ship was sunk by the Russians on january 30th 1945. And so they took the train to hannover +where young Holger Schüring, that's his Dutch name, would grow up and found his love of music. + +He is of the same generation as the fictional composer Hermann Simon in Edgar Reitz' Heimat. Born out of the shadow of WWII, thoroughly educated on +Bachisch counterpoints, too smart for his teachers, discovering new ways in + +-- + +Irmin Schmidt en Stockhausen + +Stockhausen was godlike. He challenged Irmin when he said: Tomorrow we will dedicate three hours to questions. But I only accep intelligent questions. +Next day, Irmin asked him: Do you think you will get really intelligent questions posed about the work if you act so that everybody thinks, +'I won't ask him, it's not intelligent enough'? +Stockhausen was the last of the gods, traditional composers, writing on paper, divorced from the performance of music. +Irmin's answer was: The intellectual God is Dead. Who are you on that mountain, higher that all of us? Just get down and be normal like any of us. +So is that my secret society's gospel? No, it's not about that per sé, but we will not stand for any authority.