"dn" == darw_n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > dn> I am willing to bet that > dn> when Beyer makes a track he is more listening than creating, > dn> he is toneshifting his own tracks while in the studio...
on 9/28/00 8:59 PM, ozymandias G desiderata at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think most of them have had to think pretty hard about > what they're doing, even if they can't (or won't) articulate the > results of that process. If you're not following a rote formula (and > sometimes even if you are, if you're doing it well), making music is > really hard. You _have_ to think about what you're doing, even if it's > not on some highfalutin theoretical level. True, but I believe there are a lot of producers out there (experienced and not so experienced) who are operating on gut feeling and instinct. There's a certain leap of faith and logic that allows uninformed but passionate people to make strong art (Basquiat?). It's the old "if it kick, it kick" instinct. You cannot deny or minimize the desire of 313 creators to make sh*t happen on the floor (Detroit Grand Pubahs?). > Finally, I don't think I've _ever_ met an artist who can, godlike, > take an idea and turn it into a finished work without the idea being > destructively altered at least a little along the way. Stockhausen, > maybe, but Stockhausen is a genius and comes from a completely > different tradition than anyone you and I are likely to hear on a pair > of 1200s / behind a 909. I think you might be giving KS a little too much credit (certainly "godlike" is a little strong). I imagine that, when Stockhausen was in the thick of creating, he was exercising a passion that obfuscated his ability to understand how listeners might react to his music. Hindsight alone tells us what the transforming and significant artistic statements are. Everything else is "stuff I'm digging right now..." -- There4IM
