Below. On Jan 22, 2012, at 1:51 PM, Reuben Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 22 January 2012 21:26, Casey Ransberger <[email protected]> wrote: >> Below. >> >> On Jan 21, 2012, at 6:26 PM, BGB <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> like, for example, if a musician wanted to pursue various musical forms. >>> say, for example: a dubstep backbeat combined with rap-style lyrics sung >>> using a death-metal voice or similar, without "the man" (producers, ...) >>> demanding all the time that they get a new album together > > Only art is not science: it doesn't have pieces you can take apart and > reuse in the same way (technique does). > > So it's not an analogy that works. > > (I did a PhD in computer science, and I make my living as a singer.) > > -- > http://rrt.sc3d.org > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc Music has parts you can disassemble and reuse. We do it all the time. I appoigized to my father for stealing and warping his song, when I sent him a song he wrote about me when I was a kid that I never liked, with every lyrical assertion reversed. I was afraid it would upset him. His reply was, "You've done nothing wrong. This is the folk process." Whatever the hell that means, anyway I spiked my mohawk and went to work. I can take a single measure of your music and produce variations based on it. I can take a single line from a four part harmony you've written, transpose it, change the key signature, even change the mode, and hand it back to you with a string orchestra. We're way the hell off topic here, but I have to admit being stunned to hear that a musician cannot fathom taking a piece of music apart and reusing parts of it. How many guitar songs use G-D-C for the chord progression? Have you ever heard of theme and variations? Your argument about art doesn't stand. C _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list [email protected] http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
