Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 4:06:36 PM, a knob was tweaked and out came: DP> I wouldn't venture to make the comparison to visual art, I think it's DP> inherently a different medium and has rather different issues involved. DP> However, I would venture to say that the value of a painting at least DP> has a connection with the fact that it took some type of skilled labor DP> to create it.
I view music in exactly the same way that I view visual art, perhaps because my exposure to techno didn't come in the form of performance, it came in the form of recordings. I have, since highschool, spent at least $10,000 US on techno recordings, because they had ideas that I thought were worth something, in the same way that I think the ideas in a good book are worth something. The artist need not be present to entertain me . . . I'm not in a region where I can just pop down to a pub and hear an innovative electronic act any more that I can just pop down to Japan to watch Kishiro draw Gunnm . . . Creativity is creativity, whether its recorded or performed . . . I refuse to believe that the recorded version of an idea should be unprotected and worth only the media its inscribed upon, which is essentially what Mr. Cox was suggesting (and the only reason I'm replying to the thread). I am not part of a hive-mind, throwing my dreams into the communal pot for random idiots to molest at will . . . that, to me, is the antithesis of individuality. I suppose I just don't understand how an artist could be so disconnected from his work . . . for me, my art is another internal organ. Right next to the spleen. ------------- Brian "balistic" Prince http://www.bprince.com - art and techno Strokes of Defiance EP . . . soon. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
