Tim Gill writes:
quoted 3 lines Ok, my whole point is that it took no musical talent really to create> Ok, my whole point is that it took no musical talent really to create
> something sounded pretty good. Brian Eno's tape loops took musical talent
> to create something different and interesting.
see, you're still caught up in archaic notions of what it means to be
a composer, or a musician. if some simple farting around on rebirth
sounded pretty good (and you say it did, so i have no reason to doubt
you), then that was musical talent in action! whether or not that
talent consisted of hitting "randomize" on rebirth a few times or
making tape loops is irrelevant. as zappa said (and as i'm so fond of
quoting): art is what you put the frame around. if i stick an AM
radio next to my computer, and announce that the sounds picked up
while i play quake are my next album, then that is a sound composition
(aka "music") for the duration that i declare it to be happening. as
soon as i say "the performance is over" that is that, even if the
radio keeps making noise. it is now no longer art, it is merely sound
that happens to be falling out of a radio speaker.
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