Chork the Jangler wrote:
quoted 6 lines i'm also of the slightly controversial opinion that anyone who goes to> 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.
There's certainly the potential for this to be true at a lot of music
schools, but by no means all.
I've done the music school route three times and the culture at each
place was dramatically different than all of the others. Yes, there
were "music school music" people at all of them. But there were also
plenty of genuinely creative people who were there to meet other
genuinely creative people and get more technique.
My comments aren't actually meant as a flame or a challenge to your
statement - as I said, I think you're (sadly) right in many cases. But
as someone who's been in the trenches and emerged with (I hope) some
semblance of voice and integrity, I can say that's it's not all
cookie-cutter wankery.
--
Dennis DeSantis
www.dennisdesantis.com
Mailing List:
list-subscribe@lists.dennisdesantis.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org
For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org