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From:
Chork the Jangler
To:
StaticBeats
Cc:
Intolerable Daily Madness
Date:
Tue, 6 Dec 2005 23:59:10 -0500
Subject:
Re: [idm] Student of Electronic Music requests help
Msg-Id:
<84c4d1400512062059o82b1de6ha7c21c754463ecc5@mail.gmail.com>
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that's a distortion of what i said. i never said to NOT MAKE MUSIC. for fucks sake -- MAKE MUSIC. do it often and do it well. BUT, if you're going to START making music several weeks before the deadline for entry into an undergraduate program, in my opinion you're wasting your time trying to rush to meet the deadline. maknig music is an organic process and should be done intuitively, in the absence of other people who say 'DO IT THIS WAY'. it should come from the soul, not the desire to have an IDM degree. i was simply questioning his movtives; to me his request sounded like 'H1 h4x0rs r l33t t34ch m3 h0w 2 h4x0r teh p3ntag0n!!!' and YES. drown the optomistic in the truth. its the only way to prevent the inveitable disgust at learning later you've been lied to, and there is no santa claus. i'm also of the slightly controversial opinion that anyone who goes to music school will make music school music first. there is more potential for creativity in chaos than in structured learning. there's a glut of glitch-by-numbers and wanky aphex ripoff IDM out there -- this goes for all genres. we don't need to turn making music into the sort of brain factories that our diseased public schools are. flame away, fanboys. On 12/6/05, StaticBeats <stupidnametaken@yahoo.com> wrote:
quoted 47 lines So what you're saying is - rather than help a kid> So what you're saying is - rather than help a kid > pursue his interests, we should instead drown him in > some harsh truth of a "no-future" reality? > > College is for learning AFAIK not for purists wankers. > > Shimone/Justes > http://www.staticbeats.com > http://www.jungle-life.com > http://www.boomboombap.com > > > --- Chork the Jangler <meatsock@gmail.com> wrote: > > > tell him he's too late -- the people who were > > fascinated with this > > stuff in their youth when most people were busy > > dreaming of firetrucks > > have been composing since then, having come to the > > correct conclusion > > much earlier than him, and so have better technique > > by now. it would > > be pointless to compete with this unless he's got > > the drive and the > > passion to self motivate enough to teach himself. > > any teacher that has > > to judge the relative merits of 150 undergrad IDM > > fanboys' demos > > (shudder) will know in an instant that this guy is > > just trying to hack > > something together to get in the class, rather than > > demonstrating long > > hours of hard work and creative efforts. > > > > it can be done but imho it's unlikely given that his > > first impulse was > > to ask teh internot for help rather than DOING IT. > > > > yes, i'm a jerk -- feel free to address that in a > > seperate thread. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org > For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org > >
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