Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > I commented on the example given in the original > post. Everybody can put beats on the Rheingold > ouverture, it's as easy as spraying some bright > yellow paint on a copy of a Rubens picture, and > the result is similar. > > Apart from the idea 'this is possible' either > act takes nothing that could be called creative, > you don't need to be a musician or a painter to > do it. Anyone doing this and pretending to be > an artist is just fooling his audience. I am not familiar with either Rheingold Ouverture or Rubens' art and am no expert on music, but if he is able to "fool his audience" with this then I would say that makes him an artist although maybe not to your (or my) tastes. I have heard "fools his audience" used to describe many more alternative musicians and their followers, AMM springs to mind. Cheers, Ross. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
