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



"Musician" does not mean "instrumentalist" or "vocalist".

Plenty of composers, conductors and producers do so because they may not
have the physical agility needed for playing an instrument or singing.

Don't sell yourself short, every individual on the planet has an opportunity
to be an outstanding musician. It's more a matter of approach and
application than inbred ability to play an instrument.

On 2/14/06 3:49 PM, "Aaron Ximm" <ghede@xxxxxxxx> scribed:

> ...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
> 
>   ghede@xxxxxxxx
>   http://www.quietamerican.org
> 
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>   |  cogitum est triste...   |
> 
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