Re: Is it "Live" or "Memorex"

[AKASHMUSIC@aol.com]

In a message dated Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:49:33 +0100, jimfowler@prodigy.net 
writes:

> as well, i'm a fan of dj spooky and john coltrane.  but i
> can't agree that they are capable of existing on the same 
> musical
> plane. creating something out of nothing makes you an artist or a 
>creator.
>  
> -jim


IMHO you choose not to see it that way.

AS I do think Spooky creates something out of a nothing per se but more in 
the sense that he is articulating that which we have yet to perhaps 
observe & where its drawn out of a something which has always been there 
for anyone to observe.

I think what Spooky is doing what Coltrane did or in the best example i 
can muster i think spoojy and his ilk both to greater and lessor degrees, 
are "amplifyin" and articulating a perspective which never didnt exist but 
is more or less shaped by their real;tionship with it, ya know? 

I dont really believe anymore that a musician ever starts with a blank 
page in as much as they articulate things which are already present and 
available to all of us.

 as that if things werent already available & existeing per se to all of 
us, there could be nothing really which is either classic or universal or 
perceivfed and shared as a common experience.

& who is to say that essentially the same possibilities are not available 
to Spooky or anyone else regardless as to their instrument or genre, 
canvas or brush or turntable FX units?

Again, it more IMHO about relationships & intentions and the connection 
with the audience and the quality of those "connections", and the way in 
which they are engaged, nurtured and or moved along.

And again, all that is IMHO ideally despite "you" or "me" and more or less 
in and of or by its own accord - according to what the music's story or 
the fucntion the music is serving, ya know?

i think yet again, these sentiments are in turn folks maybe reflecting 
more of their own expectations and placing their own demands on a 
performance & performer & that aint got anthing todo with any music we 
could articulate, hear, like dislike know or avoid

"Remember To Always Kill Your Expectations"
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