Den Monday 22 June 2009 15.24.42 skrev Fons Adriaensen: > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:51:53PM +0200, Bengt Gördén wrote: > > Den Monday 22 June 2009 14.35.19 skrev Fons Adriaensen: > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:00:26AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > I vote mostly prophetic. > > > > > > Given that this was written in the early 50s, it is quite > > > prophetic. > > > > On the other hand he is wrong about musical creation being restricted to > > a certain number of people so I vote for him being just dyspeptic. > > He's not saying that musical creation should be restricted to a > small number of predetermined people. But de facto, like all > artistic endeavour, it is a minority activity, We may all be > potential great composers or artists, but most of us do not > exploit that potential, just look around. Maybe 10% of the > population is capable of producing anything that would be > regarded by the remaining 90% as music they'd want to listen to. > Less than 1% could do something that would survive a generation > and become part of music history, Absolutely. We have a sender and a receiver. I was arguing about this from the sending side not caring about the receiver. Well. Lets agree that you thinks he's being prophetic and I thinks he's dyspeptic and if I ever get to LAC we can debate whether he is or not, over a nice cold pilsner. Czech or American style depending on if I need to cure an emerging dyspepsia or not. :-) regards, /bengan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
