> Monet painted a picture of a pond with paint. I think that
> "distilling" that to either just paint or just a pond misses what makes
that
> artwork special.
Indeed, and I am not suggesting that you can distill something to the point
before it was even created. If you could, than you could "di
I think you're missing the "point", to pun badly.
Listen to a remix ep or album some time and you'll see what I mean. The
point of the music is not neccessarily to distill that key idea fundamental
to it. The point is the artistic expression OF that point. I can think of
numerous remix proj