Re: [microsound] Re: microsound Digest 3 Jun 2005 16:58:56 -0000 Issue 1425

[aleks vasic <bvasic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does one need to be a trained musician to appreciate Stockhausen?  To 
listen to his music?

What a pompous statement!   Like music is some kind of higher learning, 
 Something that only the elite can grasp.

Most Music is predicated by a set of rules, learning music theory does 
not make one a great musician.  Talent and thought process/attitude is 
just as important.

Also What about all the great self taught musicians?  Blues anyone?  
Jazz?  Many of the greats were self taught, and the blazed a path of 
innovation, as opposed to following the rut that academia aften throws 
the creative sole into.

Dont get me wrong, i have respect for the man, just such a pompous 
statement requires a commentary...erm.. of sorts...


aLEKs

On Jun 5, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Claudio Parodi wrote:

> > aphex is rather an example of pop-cultural overestimation, than that
> > great a "composer"... he surely had a great impact/influence on fields
> > of electronic music, but basically he's just an innovative techno
> > producer...=20
>
> An anedocte which I find very funny. On an Italian magazine Aphex Twins
> declared his wish to do something with Karlheinz Stockhausen "before he
> dies" (yep, he said that), and that some accord was going to be. While 
> I was
> attending at a masterclass about Oktophonie by Karlheinz Stockhausen,
> someone asked about this announced collaboration. Karlheinz Stockhausen
> answered that yes, he and Aphex Twins sometimes shared the same bills, 
> but a
> collaboration is impossible because Aphex Twins is not a tought 
> musician...
>
>           Claudio Parodi
>           cla.parodi@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
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