quoted 4 lines is there such a thing as too much creation? Too much>
> > is there such a thing as too much creation? Too much
> > content? Are any of you guys' musical passions becoming
> > desensitized due to this media blitzkrieg?
If you only concern yourself with what is really, really good, it narrows
it down considerably. When I used to go to auditions (in a past life
as a 'cellist) it used to make me really nervous. Then my mom said
"only worry about the kids that are good." And suddenly I was only
competing with 2 or 3 kids instead of a hundred.
The fact that there are about a billion more people on the planet than
when I was young means necessarily that there are a couple hundred musical
geniuses out there more than there were then. That's a manageable number.
It gets narrowed down even further when you consider only the musical
geniuses who are into electronic music.
If you want to know who SHOULD be depressed, imagine the people at
Sonic Foundry and Steinberg, etc. They go to work every day knowing that
they're making it easier for people to make really horrible music. Not
only that, they can't stay in business unless they sell thousands of copies
to people who are going to just make total shit.
But even if people are bad musicians, the enjoyment they get out of trying
can't be discounted. Perfectly nice, decent people make bad music.
As a friend of my dad used to say "Anything worth doing is worth doing
badly." This guy was an ace percussionist and conductor who had perhaps
the worlds largest collection of stolen orchestral scores, but that's a
story for another day.
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