Re: A negative review for 2002 >> Biting the biscuit...

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

Would that not be an ideology of primitivism?  Choosing not to choose is
still making a choice.  It's how art critics make a living.  To name is
to maim.

Mark Sottilaro

Steve Sandberg wrote:

>
>
>      Interesting thread this is turning into.
>
>
> I have no
> particular agenda, no artistic philosophy for what I do. Nothing is
> particularly
> well thought out at all. What I play, how I play and how I think about
> what I
> play
>
>      really comes from a very, very naive (not to say primitive)
>      place.
>
>
> I love this comment.  I really have no patience for ideology in
> music.  It's so contrary to the reasons I got into music and
> creativity in the first place -- namely, joy, connecting with the
> larger dreamself beyond my rational mind, etc . . .
> At my  healthiest, I know that I do music for myself and for those who
> naturally respond to what I have to say.  At my most insecure, I worry
> about how I'll be labelled and received -- my particular nightmare is
> to be dismissed as a "new age" artist.