Kurt Schwitters calls Time. part 1

After all I have no idea who can and who can’t pick up on this or that, who reads what, who will or wont say 'yes' to the adventure, so... I have to hold my ground solidly, do the work as completely as I can, and I've done my job…all this goes for the musician too I think relating to the ear, like Bebop; deemed unlistenable at first, look what’s happened since – Fusion, Free Jazz, World Jazz, Arts Ensemble of Chicago, Sun Ra, etc, etc, and look at it now! jazz tried like hell, but bebop and a helping of funk are still the main fodder of Jazz – blues has always been in there of course. Having said that though Doc, and I like all the wild stuff a lot - Louis Armstrong in his prime is still hard to beat…’
Doc Franklyn: Yes, that’s true, long recognised too by musicians, Armstrong was as musically wild, as avant garde as anyone in his day…before he became an ambassador and all that sort of thing - and there’s still plenty to learn from him, perhaps this long splintering is the long slow birth of something new again? I hope so.’
Me: Laughing – ‘As long as it swings Doc.’
Doc Franklyn: ‘Amen … but the point was that it takes the eye and the ear time to assimilate new things – meaning of course – the Brain - which will at first reject the seemingly ungainly thing, the thing that at first lacks those common visual or aural harmonies, or has a different kind of symmetry. People will say ‘it’s ugly, it has no beauty’