On Wed, 2014-04-02 at 08:48 +0200, Tim Goetze wrote: > [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.) "Ausdruck befreit vom Sinn" (translated something like "Expression freed from any statement") - more or less the words of Christoph Schlingensief I can't agree with this as something good, it's evil, music is alive when there is a statement, when there are emotions by the artist who makes the music. Music made without personal feelings is a lie, a long time before we got scripted reality television, humans already made music comparable to scripted reality. It's even better to make music with emotions that belong to the couch doctor, than to follow Fons ideology. Sure, the musician must be able to stand the feedback of the audience. Take a look at old Black Flag videos, Henry Rollins has been laughed at. They double up with laughter, years later the same people who made jokes about him, became Fans of Rollins Band. There's no need for music to describe reality, but even fantasy stories without political or psychopathological statement needs true emotions. If the creator disappears completely, how should the music get alive? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
