[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Simon Wise]

>>
>> Rock/Pop music is performance art, the "Rockstar" is a role, that is
>> played by someone, who happens to sing/play at the same time. The result
>> is not music in the sense of Bach or Mahler but still relevant art if
>> done right.
>
> But Bach and Mahler and many (if not most) of what we now consider "classical
> and/or/great" musicians wrote for the same reason: to write something that
> people would pay money for. In Bach's day, the only people who had the money
> were far fewer than today's horde of music listeners. In that sense, the
> composer was performance art; Mozart, for example.

any opera especially, big stagey spectaculars to pull in the box office. That a 
just continued a very very old tradition, but its only one part of music.