Re: [microsound] Along the lines of the "visual arts" question...

[Derek Mason <derek.mason@xxxxxxxxx>]

I came to microsound because of an interest in this type of music.  I can not play an instrument nor can I sing.  I do write poetry and know alot of musicians, but I guess that doesn't count.



> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aaron Ximm" <ghede@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> ...I just watched myself type something that provoked me on the ambient
> list.
> 
> I wrote, "maybe one reason I make abstruse music is that I'm a crappy
> singer."
> 
> Immediately I wanted to pose the question here: how many people came to
> microsound (or related difficult, electronic, or programmatic and
> procedural sound forms) at least originally or in part because they were,
> to put it bluntly, crappy musicians?
> 
> To put it more politely, because they couldn't express fluently through
> more traditional musical avenues?
> 
> Not so much interested in the usual sophistry about how the terms are
> defined, I know that drill -- as in honest self assessment, folks.
> 
> Fwiw I'm happy to say that in my own case necessity was indeed the mother
> of invention -- I'm happy I took my particular course -- but I'm also
> aware that if I could pick and rasp like Elliot Smith or Nick Drake I may
> never have put down the guitar!
> 
>   best,
>    aaron
> 


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