Bergson, Duration, Art

Bergson's concept of Durational Consciousness is plainly inspired by his appreciation of the fluidity of music. However, that appreciation does not seem to extend to the associated fact that music does not merely appear of its own accord, but is produced by players, the fluidity of whose movements is expressed by the sonic seamlessness that Bergson enjoys. So, if he were not apparently committed to a Spirit-Matter, and, hence, to a Consciousness-Action, opposition, he might have recognized that artistic activity strikes an equilibrium of Consciousness and Movement, and, hence, that experiential Duration is a characteristic of that activity, not an exclusive property of immaterial Consciousness. Accordingly, his study of 'creative evolution', might have focused more on a generalization of personal artistry to the creativity of Nature, rather than getting bogged down trying to explain the degeneration of Spirit into Matter.