In the very same mindset....
-Jimi Hendrix re-wired and re-thought how to record his music so he could
get his guitar to sound like the music that was in his head.
-Similarly the Detroit boyz took traditional gear and re-wired/re-thought it
to develop the early tech soundz that kick-started (more or less) a musical
revolution.
Let's pose this as a question cuz I'm interested in peeps thoughts:
A. Will ever-elevating recording technology equally elevate imagination or
have the opposite effect...or both??
B. If both....how then does one gage or distinguish true musicianship and
talent from creativity/imagination/uniqueness in composition??
I know this is a chicken / egg paradoxical type question, but as an older
soul I'm finding less imagination in the place of technological
brilliance....who really counts more nowadays THE MAN or THE
MACHINE????????????
I imagine that facile people will always make relatively facile music and
conversely us weirdo complicated folks will forever push the envelope to
express human ponderings and intricacies in ways that have heretofore never
been expressed.........
What do you all tink???
From: "Rusty Blasco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 313@hyperreal.org
Subject: [313] technology vs. art
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:32:36 -0500
Regarding technology (no matter the level of intricacy), here's what my
trumpet professor told me about musicianship. After listening to me labor
painfully through a difficult passage in a piece of music, he would stop me
(probably for the sake of his sensitive ears) and make me aware of the
trumpet. While holding it up, turning it, and knocking on the bell, the
man
explained to me that the trumpet is merely a thing of brass, incapable of
producing music without assistance (in this case, the air of a human's
pursed and buzzing lips). The music is in your head, he stated, pointing
to
his noggin. If you can't hear it, and performed flawlessly, in your own
mind, than you can't expect it to come out of the instrument.
Maybe this will offer some much needed elucidation.
Rusty
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