asmox
Headphoneus Supremus
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art is art if it has some significance to the person creating it. a guy can tap a fork on a cactus, record it, and call it art. it's an expression of self.. and you are in absolutely no position to say that what somebody else does isn't art because it doesn't have widespread appreciation. in your opinion, that may be a simple and accurate way of looking at it. in reality, it's a simple but completely bogus way of looking at it.
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there is truth in there, but it appears to be stuck under all the interspersed bulls**t.
my collection consists of mostly jazz fusion, prog of all sorts, technical metal, experimental electronica, avant garde orchestration, world music, or any given mixture of the above. i haven't listened to the radio in years. i thrive on music that is comprised of obscenely complex rhythmic structures, and i have tremendous appreciation for music in general.
i don't like classical music. i appreciate it, but i don't like it.. i'd never listen to classical music for personal enjoyment. it bores me to tears.. and not because i have an attention span of less than 30 minutes or whatever the hell it is you said, not because i don't know how to appreciate complex forms of music, but because IT DOES NOT APPEAL TO ME.
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good thing the remainder of the world isn't so blind.
| Originally Posted by Aman In two-hundred years, we will still have these pieces. We will still have Miles Davis, and we will still have Elvis Presley and The Beatles. We WILL NOT have speed metal bands of the 1990's, or Britney Spears. It will be long-gone. |
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| Originally Posted by Aman In my opinion, art isn't art unless it is appreciated by somebody. And the smaller that appreciation is (not in numbers, but in AMOUNT of appreciation per viewer/listener) the lesser and lesser art it is. This is a pretty simple yet accurate way of looking at it. Who the hell understands Warhol's soup can painting? |
art is art if it has some significance to the person creating it. a guy can tap a fork on a cactus, record it, and call it art. it's an expression of self.. and you are in absolutely no position to say that what somebody else does isn't art because it doesn't have widespread appreciation. in your opinion, that may be a simple and accurate way of looking at it. in reality, it's a simple but completely bogus way of looking at it.
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| Originally Posted by Aman Building off of that idea, even though pop artists have an immensely larger audience, how many of them are REALLY appreciating the music to the level and passion that one who listens to Miles Davis does? I'll tell you: not too many. Kids who listen to pop music do so because it's filler music to blast in their cars, and because it's "cool". Yes, they like it, but how would they have been exposed to it had it not been for the extreme marketing? What kind of extreme marketing did private performances of classical music give to the public? None - it persisted because of the immense appreciation it received from the small crowd that had the opportunity to hear such gems. To appreciate more complex forms of music like Classical and Jazz, it requires not only experience but also passion for what you are hearing, and in this sense, the listeners of these genres have much more of that to give than the listeners of other music such as pop and simple rock. |
there is truth in there, but it appears to be stuck under all the interspersed bulls**t.
my collection consists of mostly jazz fusion, prog of all sorts, technical metal, experimental electronica, avant garde orchestration, world music, or any given mixture of the above. i haven't listened to the radio in years. i thrive on music that is comprised of obscenely complex rhythmic structures, and i have tremendous appreciation for music in general.
i don't like classical music. i appreciate it, but i don't like it.. i'd never listen to classical music for personal enjoyment. it bores me to tears.. and not because i have an attention span of less than 30 minutes or whatever the hell it is you said, not because i don't know how to appreciate complex forms of music, but because IT DOES NOT APPEAL TO ME.
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| Originally Posted by Aman I really don't see how you could argue what I just said - any of it... |
good thing the remainder of the world isn't so blind.
