But we're not talking about the man, we're talking about the music.
-Jonathan
--- On Tue, 2/1/11, Dominic Pflaum <dompfl...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Dominic Pflaum <dompfl...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PD] Am I alone?
To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <jancs...@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Mathieu Bouchard" <ma...@artengine.ca>, pd-list@iem.at
Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2011, 10:38 PM
Composers tend to do a terrible job articulating what's relevant in
their own work. I'd take what a composer professes to be interested in
with a grain of salt.
Perhaps in some cases but I certainly wouldn't make that a prescriptive
approach. Without understand that's Steve Reich was influenced heavily by tape
machinery, West African music, and Indonesian music, you can enjoy the music,
but you cannot fully understand the man. There are many other examples I could
give.
Dom
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancs...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Well, their ideas behind the music are their ideas behind the music. The
music that results is the music that results.
Composers tend to do a terrible job articulating what's relevant in their own
work. I'd take what a composer professes to be interested in with a grain of
salt.
-Jonathan
From:
Mathieu Bouchard <ma...@artengine.ca>;
To:
Dominic Pflaum <dompfl...@gmail.com>;
Cc:
<pd-list@iem.at>;
Subject:
Re: [PD] Am I alone?
Sent:
Mon, Jan 31, 2011 4:25:08 AM
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Dominic Pflaum
wrote:
> But in direct response to what you wrote, I believe there are some people who
> are more interested in the ideas behind the music, than the actual sounds
> produced; the sounds produced are almost a souvenir of the idea. It's not my
> approach, but who am I to say others should not look at things that way?
That's alright, but can't they call it « ideas behind music » instead of
« music » ? or perhaps « ideas instead of music » ? ;)
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