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

[cyborgk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Quite the opposite, I have worked as a professional pianist at various
times in my life. However, I was always interested in finding new sonic
terrain, and there was a point where playing normal instruments in normal
ways seemed inhibiting, and my musical training itself, with it's emphasis
on melody and harmony, sometimes proved an obstacle when I wanted to think
of music more in terms of textures and sound blocks.

On the a side note, I do feel that having to spend so much time
programming (esp modular environments) and working on my laptop has
probably had a detrimental effect on my piano chops, which saddens me
slightly. But since I work in an office during the day now, there's only
so much time I can devote to music making, and I have to pursue my
artistic vision before pursuing what is merely enjoyable in some cases.
I'd like to integrate my performance skills more, however, in the future.

~David

> ...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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