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Re: [microsound] Lemur!
In a message dated 11/02/2005 00:57:03 GMT Standard Time, npeters@xxxxxxxxxxx
writes:
> Amazing and awe inspiring, as are many human feats, and worthy of
> respect. But virtuosity is a means to an end, enjoyable in itself, but
> not to be mistaken for art.
>
Indeed, I know several people who are wonderful players of instruments, the
violin for example, who cannot play a note without a score in front of them.
And cannot write anything at all......how are they artists? Sometimes we
confuse art with craft ! ?
"He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels"
Henri Michaux
www.flickr.com/photos/jpaul23/