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I can understand the position you take. It is frustrating when you see people who have put in little effort being applauded over those who have spent years perfecting a craft. I'll hear some beautiful electronic work and often wonder if it's someone just snapping together a piece like using Legos or were they really involved with every texture. I won't argue that what I do is music, but I will contend that it is an art, and I have put a significant amount of time (~40 years), effort, and finances into developing my craft. I develop my sounds and textures without the use of sample libraries, just like I avoid using stock photos on my cover designs. Nothing wrong with doing so, I just feel a better sense of ownership when I brought something into the world from scratch. For me, there is little interest in sticking to the conventions of composition and using the same textures and sources that have been well-visited over the last few hundred years. In my opinion, music/sound/recording should be a living art; growing, changing, and improving what the masters before us discovered and themselves refined. Both views can exist simultaneously without one needing to be ranked or validated versus the other. The violin was likely considered a bridge too far in some long-ago era, as were pianos. Certainly jazz had it's early detractors, many who questioned it's validity as a form of music. But every musician relies on technology, from someone like me who is fully embracing the new frontiers in digital, to those who prefer traditional analog work and use things designed a hundred years ago. It shouldn't matter if the tech is a year old or 100. Use and learn your tools well. |
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That was a very well-written, logical, and kind response to what I wrote. Thanks for taking the time, and for not taking offense. As I said, I do consider those digital audio creators who put the time and care into their craft artists, as you so obviosuly do and are. It's just not the art I "signed up for" five decades ago..
My preference is to sit at a good grand piano with an acoustic bassist and a sensitive drummer, with quiet interested people listening... no analog/digital nothing, just musicians and those who appreciate live music sharing music together played on instruments painstakingly crafted by folks who love those instruments. In other words... all the things that make music a HUMAN experience, and as devoid of unnatural technology as possible. Obviously, those times are extremely rare, but every once in a while a gig will come along in a club, or small concert in a library, or some other intimate setting when we can play free of amplification, sound systems, sound reinforcement personnel, click tracks, midi tracks, video feeds, pickups, mics, backing tracks, and other stuff that just sucks the soul from my playing (and most of my colleagues), or at absolute best just creates another layer between the player and the audience. It's a different thing. The stuff I like to play isn't a visual show... it has almost nothing in common with what most folks view as a "concert" these days. A "concert" has become something at least as much about the visual/entertainment value and an over-the-top multi-sensory experience, rather than something where a musician shares music with a group of listeners. In any case, I don't disagree with anything you wrote, and I DO very much respect your skills and dedication to something you love. Cheers.
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