31 Mar
2014
31 Mar
'14
3:35 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 07:55:27AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
On 03/31/2014 07:26 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
My remark wasn't about musical genres, to each his/her
own. And I know some nice music made by arranging samples
on a timeline - it's just very rare.
The point is that anything that doesn't require any effort
or background to make it is very likely not going to be
interesting [*]. Those who know their art by training,
study and experience will always be at an advantage and
dominate a scene, just as a trained sportsman will win
any competition against someone who doesn't care about
training.
Ciao,
[*] except maybe as a overhyped fashion, as happens in
the figurative arts.
--
FA
A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia.
It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris
and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)
Your 'musician' seems to be one for whom
everything
has to be prepared before and easy, so the only thing
that remains to be done is some clicking on a screen.
And then think him/herself a musician just as the
kids wasting their time with shoot-and-kill games
imagine they are soldiers.
I'm not so sure it's that simple. Even well-trained classical and
jazz musicians display evident prejudice towards certain kinds of
music within their own genres. One "jazz" fan loves his Dixieland,
another can't do without Sun Ra.