[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[david]

On 04/02/2014 01:20 AM, Simon Wise wrote:
>
>>>
>>> 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.

Who knows, maybe 300-400 years from know, today's rock operas will be 
high opera! Complete with the fat lady singing and scholarly 
musicologists writing dissertations on the use of pinball machines as 
musical instruments...

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