[idm] Re: Definitions Don't give Music or Art Justice
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I don't really care about the stupid terms and words... All I care about
is the quality of available music in prerecorded and live scenerios. It
seems to me that the quality has been suffering as of late, and in my
opinion, the quality would improve if society imposed the hurdle of
actually studying music and practicing an instrument on all those who
sought to be called musicians....
for those who disagree that quality has been suffering, I have two words
for you:
britney spears
I sincerely doubt that aphex twin, autechre and the like would have been
discouraged had they been exposed to traditional musicianship... in
fact, I would be seriously surprised if they weren't. Aside from the few
idiot savants who seem to be born musical geniuses without any practice
or training I think the rest of the composing performing world would
really benefit from learning to play a traditional instrument and
learning a little about music theory etc... I believe this would have a
profundly inspiring effect on musicians everywhere and would be nothing
but beneficial for them and for society as a whole....
i could be wrong
matt loathing wrote:
quoted 28 lines i think the biggest problem with this argument about>
> i think the biggest problem with this argument about
> DJs not being musicians comes down to this:
> there are Radio DJs who ramble all day and then play
> CDs like their programming director tells them to and
> then there are accomplished DJs who are able to take
> the medium to a new level.
> The DJs who have practiced their "techniques" are able
> to take a record of a guy taking a dump on a four
> track and scratch it up or mess it up or manipulate it
> to sound like something that they, yes the DJ, has
> created....
> To say that DJ's are not musicians....just is
> ignorance.
> And to say that DJs that produce are few is a pile of
> nonsense....
> Most DJs that I know do produce and do release their
> own tracks.
>
> Finally
> We as humans and intellectuals have reduced ourselves
> to the very meanings of words...instead of being
> insightful enough to realize that words just can't
> encapsulate the magnitude of what performance,
> musicianship, art and music truly mean.
>
> Matt Loathing
>
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