Re: [microsound] process vs achievement

[m <m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> most people are confused by the difference between software development and
> content developed with software tools: the two processes are
> different...solving aesthetic problems is not quite as linear as solving
> algorithmic problems...sometimes the two processes cross, blur and support
> one another but when they do the synergism creates a different discipline
> altogether...

YES YES YES... and sometimes sharing the process is part of the art 
and sometimes it isn't... both are valid. I am, however, troubled by 
the need to know every detail of a process, as if otherwise the work 
is not complete... but that's just my thing. It seems to me like 
demystification for it's own sake is sort of pointless, and reminds 
me of the way science continually rips away at the world in order to 
"explain" everything and reveal how it works, instead of occasionally 
just enjoying the way the world is and simply being there. I like to 
be able to appreciate sounds as sounds not as violin sounds or laptop 
sounds or squishy sounds...


> IMNSHO I think the casual listener should know as little as possible about
> the inner workings of a composers process so they can understand the
> musical language of the composer...

Sometimes, at least, though this approach seems like it could lead to 
equally pointless obfuscation or over-mystification of the process. 
Art is just something we do, something we enjoy... sometimes a magic 
show and sometimes an expose... sometimes nothing at all.

Without sounding like a completely idiotic new age prat (too late, I 
hear you say) I should say that the more secure I feel in my creative 
process, with my art and even with myself, the less I care how much 
people know about what my process is... likewise the more unsure I 
feel the more I tend to want to hide it... mostly anyway... but 
that's just me...

Zzzzzzz...

Michael

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