Re: [microsound] arranging & the like

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:05 PM -0700 5/10/03, macrosound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>I mostly agree with you.  Most of the time the finished product is sort of
>a description of the process.  If it's not, then I consider myself a
>failure and I try again.  To that extent I think it matters very much what
>I do.  If the intent isn't clear (or intentionally unclear) then all I've
>done is add a little noise to the pool of thought and experience.

Perhaps I was trying to be overly aphoristic.

What I meant to express was more along the "many roads up the 
mountain" point of view. As an artist you can choose to use any of a 
variety of methods, and the language and procedures can be chosen to 
best investigate or express some particular thing. This much can be 
considered arbitrary (as long as you accept that by making a 
particular choice the artists is being "true" to him/herself and to 
the goal of the piece). But what is crucial is that it be done well 
and in a manner that maximizes the effectiveness of the art work.

That is to say, it doesn't matter so much WHAT you do as an artist, 
but it matters a whole lot HOW you do it.
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