Re: nerds with toys

[Tilmann Dehnhard <tilmann@dehnhard.com>]

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.
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>> tilmann
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>> 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
>>>
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