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to happily ignore is entirely something else than censorship... may anybody like or dislike whatever music there is - and talk about it - and even produce more of it! tilmann Krispen Hartung schrieb: > It could very well be a perfectly valid and subjective perspective. If > so, why would we want to censor the viewpoint? Unless we are insincere > and not confident in the integrity of our own approach to making > music... > > I am not siding with the original comment, which I think is a > generalization, and because I think this is entirely situational and > context drive, but I have seen many one-man-band looping acts where I > totally agree with the comment below. What changes my viewpoint is > when the musician is very well accomplished or he/she is truly > creative. But when I see a one-man looper construct a piece of music > that I can't really differentiate between a mediocre band, then it > doesn't do anything for me. It is very much like watching an amateur > musician lay down tracks in his home studio. If the looper is a > virtuoso or creating tracks that are really new and out there, then it > turns me on. Again, it's all context driven for me, vs. there being a > hard and fast rule. I don't know if the author of the original > comment was making a hard and fast rule. There isn't enough info. > > But back to my point, what we should absolutely and categorically not > honor is censorship. A healthy community receives criticism with open > arms and defends itself professionally and with tact. I'm not saying > that you didn't do this, tilmann (I am sure you mean well), but more > predicting what this thread could potentially become if we let it. > > I think we should get the guy to elaborate on his comment and see > whether he really is just expressing his own personal feelings, or if > he beliefs he is making an objective statement...if the latter, then > we refute and falsify his ass to oblivion! :) > > K- > >> why would you have to "honour" this prespective? >> i'd rather go for "happily ignore". >> seems to be a loud man with a short attention span. >> >> tilmann >> >> >> Michael Peters schrieb: >>> also an interesting perspective that has to be honoured ... >>> /Nothing - NOTHING - is more boring and ego-fed than live looping, >>> especially when you have a full band on the stage. If I want to see >>> someone "creating tracks", I'll go to a recording studio. In >>> concert, I want to see and hear a band working together making >>> music, not some nerd with toys making tracks./ by billthemailman >>> January 30, 2:39 PM >>> http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/01/30/in_the_loop/?page=2 >>> >> >> > >