23 Jun
2009
23 Jun
'09
1:11 a.m.
On Monday 22 June 2009 07:06:23 Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings,
Something to start the week. While reading from PH's A Composer's World
this morning I discovered this passage:
"If there is anything remaining in this world that is on the one side
basically aristocratic and individualistic and on the other side as
brutal as the fights of wild animals, it is artistic creation. It is
aristocratic, because it is the privilege of a very restricted number of
people. If it could be democratized, it would lose its quality as an
art, become reduced to a craft, and end as an industry. In many branches
of our musical life we already have reached this lowest, industrial
phase, as we let musical democracy have its unbridled way."
Prophetic or just dyspeptic ? Comments welcome...
To put it the other way round...
(Which is partly what Paul Davis was also hinting at...)
You need to have mastered the craft, before you can make art out of it.
In some cases I find it rather embarrassing with computation/electronic arts
(as a broad term for anything made with electronics, algorithmic computation,
computers, etc.), that sometimes the technological aspect is used in such a
naive way that it rather shows off the excitement of the creator about that
technology, which (s)he hardly understands, rather than taking that
technology, and creating some artwork that is beyond the technology itself.
sincerely,
Marije