RE: Building a rackmount looping computer as an alternative to the Receptor for Mobius

["CM" <listmail@asyouthink.com>]

I think, in the grand scheme of sound, we're ALL amateurs...


Cass

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill [mailto:rs@moinlabs.de] 
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 10:50 AM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: AW: Building a rackmount looping computer as an alternative to the
Receptor for Mobius

The welfare case (or more generally: working as a musician exclusively but
deducting an income from sources not directly connected to making
music) makes this a little bit more complicated: Ludwig van Beethoven (who
received a pension from Duke Waldstein based on his living in
Vienna) or Karlheinz Stockhausen and Richard Strauß (both married a rich
girl)...

Still I understand your point relating to "pro" how your life plan works, 
as
opposed to how good you are, although this gives the pro abbreviation a
meaning closer related to "profitable"...

        Rainer

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Travis Hartnett [mailto:travishartnett@gmail.com]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2005 18:00
An: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Betreff: Re: Building a rackmount looping computer as an alternative to the
Receptor for Mobius


> So your definition of pro or non-pro is entirely based on the 
> economics.

Yes!

> Which would make somebody living off welfare and at the same time 
> trying to get somebody interested in their entirely unprofessional art

> is a professional,

No--the welfare case isn't paying his bills from money derived from
music-making activities.  In a related case: Vincent van Gogh was never
a professional painter.

Bryan Beller:  no, wasn't a professional musician until recently.  Has
existed in the semi-pro years since leaving college under my definition.
Another related case: Philip Glass drove a taxi and installed kitchen
appliances to pay the bills until the early 80's.

TravisH


On 10/16/05, Rainer Thelonius Balthasar Straschill <rs@moinlabs.de>
wrote:
> So your definition of pro or non-pro is entirely based on the 
> economics. Which would make somebody living off welfare and at the 
> same time trying to get somebody interested in their entirely 
> unprofessional art is a professional, while somebody like e.g. Bryan 
> Beller (of Mike Keneally/Beer for Dolphins, Z, Steve Vai, 
> Mullmuzzler/Jamie LaBrie etc.) isn't (or at least hasn't been until 
> shortly).
>