Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 4:06:36 PM, a knob was tweaked and out came:
DP> I wouldn't venture to make the comparison to visual art, I think it's
DP> inherently a different medium and has rather different issues involved.
DP> However, I would venture to say that the value of a painting at least
DP> has a connection with the fact that it took some type of skilled labor
DP> to create it.
I view music in exactly the same way that I view visual art, perhaps
because my exposure to techno didn't come in the form of performance,
it came in the form of recordings. I have, since highschool, spent at
least $10,000 US on techno recordings, because they had ideas that I
thought were worth something, in the same way that I think the ideas
in a good book are worth something. The artist need not be present to
entertain me . . .
I'm not in a region where I can just pop down to a pub and hear an
innovative electronic act any more that I can just pop down to Japan to
watch Kishiro draw Gunnm . . .
Creativity is creativity, whether its recorded or performed . . . I
refuse to believe that the recorded version of an idea should be
unprotected and worth only the media its inscribed upon, which is
essentially what Mr. Cox was suggesting (and the only reason I'm
replying to the thread).
I am not part of a hive-mind, throwing my dreams into the communal pot
for random idiots to molest at will . . . that, to me, is the
antithesis of individuality.
I suppose I just don't understand how an artist could be so
disconnected from his work . . . for me, my art is another internal
organ.
Right next to the spleen.
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Brian "balistic" Prince
http://www.bprince.com - art and techno
Strokes of Defiance EP . . . soon.
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