[Fons Adriaensen] >If music is about 'communicating' anything, it should probably >(IMHO) first communicate itself. There's nothing more boring >than an artist trying to communicate his or her very personal >feelings, be they sorrow or anger. The very least you need is >a wider context that is relevant to others, and the music (or >any form of art) that will most strongly communicate anything >but itself will be the one that in which the creator himself >disappears completely. To quote Miles Davis, "I think people want to hear music and think what they want to think." (I think this is especially true for live performances. I -- like probably most of us -- hold dear a couple of recordings exactly because they so strongly express a particular emotion or state of mind.) Cheers, Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
