On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 07:06 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: So is he arguing for Aristocracy and elitism? As he points out, on one end of the spectrum, we are already there. In most popular music genres and popular films, the production and music is formulaic. I often lament the "desktop revolution" that made people think that just anyone could be a good graphic designer, producer, audio engineer, and musician. But having said that, I have a keen enough of an ear (and eye) to tell the good from the bad (or what I think is the good from the bad, anyway). And every once in a while you happen upon an artist that made their own record, that has real talent. I went out to a cafe last night for their weekly Open Mic Night, and had the privilege of seeing this talented young women: http://juliamarieband.com/ http://www.myspace.com/juliamarieband (I hate myspace too, but just scroll down a bit and watch that video) She recorded her own record, and her songs have opened up a lot of eyes. Now I just gotta convince her to come into my studio. Best, Rich... > Greetings, > > Something to start the week. While reading from PH's A Composer's World > this morning I discovered this passage: > > "If there is anything remaining in this world that is on the one side > basically aristocratic and individualistic and on the other side as > brutal as the fights of wild animals, it is artistic creation. It is > aristocratic, because it is the privilege of a very restricted number of > people. If it could be democratized, it would lose its quality as an > art, become reduced to a craft, and end as an industry. In many branches > of our musical life we already have reached this lowest, industrial > phase, as we let musical democracy have its unbridled way." > > Prophetic or just dyspeptic ? Comments welcome... > > Best, > > dp > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
