15 Feb
2009
15 Feb
'09
6:27 p.m.
Fons Adriaensen wrote:
I commented on the example given in the original
post. Everybody can put beats on the Rheingold
ouverture, it's as easy as spraying some bright
yellow paint on a copy of a Rubens picture, and
the result is similar.
Apart from the idea 'this is possible' either
act takes nothing that could be called creative,
you don't need to be a musician or a painter to
do it. Anyone doing this and pretending to be
an artist is just fooling his audience.
I am not familiar with either Rheingold
Ouverture or Rubens' art and am
no expert on music, but if he is able to "fool his audience" with this
then I would say that makes him an artist although maybe not to your (or
my) tastes. I have heard "fools his audience" used to describe many more
alternative musicians and their followers, AMM springs to mind.
Cheers,
Ross.