So you find it stimulating reading time and time again "I put emotion in my music." Don't you wanna know, well what do you mean about that? And sooo many DJs talk of their music in terms of 'journeys'. "I wanna take people on a journey." That's self-evident to me... It's reductive and in 10 years I've heard so many people say it and it says and means nothing. If you want to lure people into your craft, you need to lure them in - and illuminate. Sorry but that's my hack side speaking! It's a cliche as I have heard/read/transcribed it a zillion times. I've learnt that some musicians are better - and more comfortable - letting their music talk which I think is fair enough. I have to say I've virtually never heard that in Detroit circles as the artists are so invidualist that they will share insights.
> On Thu, November 3, 2005 11:54 pm, Cyclone Wehner wrote: >> Maybe I wasn't very clear in that, of course they are, but when someone >> says >> "I put emotion in my music" or "I wanted to convey emotion" I get bored by >> cliches like that. It doesn't inspire you to hear the song, hey. Something >> more illuminating like "I was feeling despair over this". > > how is it chiche? thats insane. thats like saying "im tired of talking, > its so cliche. i want something newer!" talking about music in the > abstract is certainly not the most useful thing to do. discussing how it > was made and the specific point of different sounds or arrangement ideas > might be slightly better, but it still falls way short of really > understanding how a piece of music sounds like an emotion. its not really > a describable thing! > > tom >
