[warning - semantic nit-picking ahead:]
It really bugs me when people refer to music "progressing." Music
does not "progress." The word progression implies forward change
towards something. It implies improvement and direction. One might
say an artist improves in their control of their medium, so I suppose
an artist can progress, but musical styles do not progress. They
evolve.
It's just my personal problem, I suppose, but I really wish people
would start saying that music evolves, because that's all it really
does. Music changes over time as ideas and techniques interact and
clash, just like biological organisms change over time as our genes
interact. So, the act of creating a piece of music is a lot like
sex.
There is no goal towards which music progresses, and no existing
"genre" or "species" is perfect, or even has a perfect
representative. Genres and species are only human categorical ideas
meant to help describe a set of similar things. In reality, it's all
different.
Yes, I know we all know this. Sorry for bothering. I just wanted to
say this about progression because it's one of those terms I feel is
used incorrectly a lot, and that reinforces its incorrect use.
[ok, i'm done now]
-adam
np: Gimmik - Slow Motion Process
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