The Objectivity of Taste

Regardless of what lies behind our instincts for art, those instincts bestow it with a transcendence of time, place, and culture. Hume noted that “the general principles of taste are uniform in human nature… the same Homer who pleased at Athens and Rome two thousand years ago, is still admired at Paris and London.” Though people can argue about whether the glass is half full or half empty, a universal human aesthetic really can be discerned beneath the variation across cultures.

—Steven Pinker

Clement Greenberg was the most significant visual art critic of the modern era. Through both his writings and his visits to Canada, he exerted a substantial impact of the development of art in Canada (and therefore, the world).

“The making, like the appreciating, of art would be reduced to a matter of codified selective procedures that were as learnable as those of accountancy. This is what would have to follow if esthetic judgments could really be proven. And it would follow further that a deaf person could be “shown” just how good Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert were, and then proceed, if he got the statistics right, to compose music just as good, if not better, than theirs.”
—Clement Greenberg

…a whimsical, novel, experimental, digital musical exploration of existence, esthetics, and authenticity—reframing philosophical Modernist prose content in the form of lyrical avant-garde hip-hop and jazz, utilizing synthetic methods and media.