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hello Devon...i'm Stefano ...i'don't know your personal definition of art, music and etc...but, for me, this is only a "words-spot",maybe  it's not "the life" but i like it...my best
ciao
stefano "urkuma" de santis www.sanfocahotel.com 
 DEVON ARMSTRONG <devonarmstrong@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:i've tried. i've read these messages. i know i'm not adding anything
positive or constructive by adding this my first message, but i can't
understand how so many people can be interested in so much shit!

i've rarely if ever read a post on here with anything beyond superficial and
banal content. has anything been stated on here that was not garbled rehash
of something they had read in this month's Wire? i'm so sick of this
culture - it has so little to do with music - or art (and i know that this
will set off a string of responses criticizing my closed-mindedness, my
inability to understand the gravity and scope of these new frontiers!).
please, do not heckle me, either, for being a naysayer. i'm enjoy looking
into the future of music the way everyone on here does. i'm just frustrated
with this scene that has become, if it ever wasn't, so pretentious and
unoriginal. this vocabulary that everyone, including myself, has learned!
the way there are certain musics, composers, musicians, philosophers, etc,
that everyone has accepted at the same time as being important are revered!
the self-promotion of hundreds of dull unoriginal "artists" all trying to
advance themselves - to what end?

i'm sure that many people on here find worth in this list. and its good if
wider interests are encouraged and fostered here. but c'mon - not
everything is good! not every piece of music is worth listening to!
everytime you record something with your minidisc player - it isn't
neccesarily art! not everytime you listen to mozart are you stuck in the
past or failing to move forward! not everything that hurts your ears in
beautiful! everytime you mention some artist or work doesn't mean you are
any closer to its genius! everytime you use Pi in a compositional process
doesn't make it experimental! everytime you make something that the
majority of the world's population doesn't "understand", that doesn't make
mean you're doing something new, something worth sharing, something that is
art! 

the fact that so many people are sharing their stuff on here and need a
community in order to validate themselves makes me even more convinced that
this entire scene has so very little to do with sound and everything to do
with being social. so in that case - keep it up...but don't think that what
goes on on this list has any importance in any other way.

i'm sorry for the tone that this has taken, but after reading another load
of useless posts, i thought it was finally time to get involved. 

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