On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 07:55:27AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > On 03/31/2014 07:26 AM, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > > >Your 'musician' seems to be one for whom everything > >has to be prepared before and easy, so the only thing > >that remains to be done is some clicking on a screen. > >And then think him/herself a musician just as the > >kids wasting their time with shoot-and-kill games > >imagine they are soldiers. > > I'm not so sure it's that simple. Even well-trained classical and > jazz musicians display evident prejudice towards certain kinds of > music within their own genres. One "jazz" fan loves his Dixieland, > another can't do without Sun Ra. My remark wasn't about musical genres, to each his/her own. And I know some nice music made by arranging samples on a timeline - it's just very rare. The point is that anything that doesn't require any effort or background to make it is very likely not going to be interesting [*]. Those who know their art by training, study and experience will always be at an advantage and dominate a scene, just as a trained sportsman will win any competition against someone who doesn't care about training. Ciao, [*] except maybe as a overhyped fashion, as happens in the figurative arts. -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
