Some music conveys feeling through unresolved ambiguity rather than certainty

Evidence

This “negative capability” means that Overgrown is like an inversion of the oversaturated high-gloss emotional stridency of chart and reality TV pop, which is always perfectly certain of what it is feeling. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1303

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hauntological pop music can express unresolved doubt through an aesthetic of greyness — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 447; Formal incompleteness in music can convey longing more deeply than resolved expression — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 460; Unresolved music can express longing detached from any remembered object of faith — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1303 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Bach’s organ pedal leaps create perceptual pitch ambiguity for listeners. #exemplifies (0.95)