Concerning Media Sensate

While music seems timeless, it is a matter of the re-interpretation through cultural lenses. It is a bit of an absurdity to paint another Guernica but not one to play another Beethoven’s 5th. If one were to re-paint Guernica, it’s social impact and expressiveness would not create much emotion to the contemporary individual. Yet even today, an execution of Beethoven’s 5th has power to move that a reproduction of an image seems to lack. This statement misses the point.
Guernica represents human war and its atrocities as an archetype, much like a last supper of Leonardo and Emile Nolde represent a confrontation of betrayal. Archetypes are expressed through cultural lenses as are musical compilations. Their original fabrications are interpretations of their socio-political times. This frames the archetype’s structure of expression and every subsequent reproduction is a temporal variant. The 5th symphony can never be played as it were just as Guernica can never be painted as it once was.