"Yunchan Lim is better than Glenn Gould at Bach...?" | A Response скачать в хорошем качестве

"Yunchan Lim is better than Glenn Gould at Bach...?" | A Response

Go check out ‪@PiergiorgioWilson‬'s channel as well if you enjoyed, more musical content over there. Additionally, check out Yunchan Lim's release of the Goldberg Variations, which I believe is set to release in a few days; looking forward to seeing how he comes at the set as whole. This video is an analysis of aesthetic logic, not a moral judgment of individuals. It addresses how certain contemporary performances function, historically and ideologically, rather than what performers believe or intend. This is not a claim about Yunchan Lim’s politics. The term “fascist aesthetics” is used in the sense developed by Walter Benjamin and György Lukács: the aestheticization of total emotional experience as a substitute for critique or distance. This logic appears across much of contemporary culture, including high art. The comparison to K-pop is about productive logic, not musical value. In both cases, affect is highly engineered, emotionally legible, and pre-interpreted for the listener. The result is an experience that feels personal while being designed for smooth, mass identification. This is not a defense of taste or preference. Glenn Gould is invoked as a historical negation: his Bach resists catharsis, sentimentality, and immersion, forcing attention onto structure and mediation. The issue is what kind of listener a performance produces, not which style one enjoys. Accessibility is not neutral. When it guarantees emotional legibility rather than structural clarity, it reassures the listener that immediate response is sufficient. That reassurance has ideological consequences. The critique is not of beauty, but of totality. When aesthetic experience becomes frictionless and complete, it ceases to challenge its subject and instead pacifies it. This is a central concern of modern aesthetic theory, from Bertolt Brecht onward. #glenngould #yunchanlim #music #classicalmusic #critique #bach #chopin #goldbergvariations