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

[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

  ghede@xxxxxxxx
  http://www.quietamerican.org

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