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Our fate – to take processes from the technological to the aesthetic

Woody: “None of us would introduce new compositional principles. Music was very strong in composing, and the syntax of film was strong in composing with story or narrative units … In our cause we never pretended composition. All our works are linear, in the form of demos, bringing certain artifacts or phenomenologies out … This was our fate, to bring those processes and take them from the technological environment and to bring them closer to art, from the technological to the aesthetic. And I think if we will ever be remembered, it will be for making the transition between these two points, and we volunteered for this because we found it most interesting.”

Chris Hill, “Interview with Woody Vašulka” (1992), in The Squealer, Buffalo, NY (1995); link: https://vasulka.org/archive/4-25/Squealer(5097).pdf.