On 02/12/2010 01:14 PM, Lorenzo wrote: > Hi, >>> And even though a lot of comments mention that this guy has talent I >>> oppose to >>> that. This is a good example of craftsmanship, not talent. >>> > Without entering the debate about the posted video (I guess everyone > have their own tastes in music) I would like to object to an underlying > concept expressed here that 'talent' is in contrast with 'craftsmanship' > which recalls certain commonplace ideas where there is on the one side > talent, 'artistic genius' and similer and on the other hand 'daily > work', craft. I think there are many examples of artists who were/are > great craftsmen without that implying they had no talent or that they > weren't even geniuses. A good craftsman can be a real genius: an example > which comes straight to my mind is Bach :) > > Bests, > Lorenzo Hello Lorenzo, I'm with you on that. I didn't say talent and craftmanship oppose each other. I wanted to make clear that craftsmanship is something different than talent because it's also a commonplace idea to confuse craftsmanship with talent. Best, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
