No Mike, you're listening to old great music. Doing that is a kind of dance with the ancestors. Dancing with the ancestors is good. Craftsmen do it. Audiences do it. Like the creativity test in newsweek, old music gets easier.
"17th and 18th century junk music" is music written in the present using old derivative and predictable devices to get cheap thrills. Commercial music. A musical teacher coach has to turn cheap, trash into gold by making the performers have the depth that the songwriters couldn't imagine. Peggy Lee and Ethel Waters to name a couple, could take a simple obvious melody and turn it into a work of art. Performing Art layered from their lives. But don't mistake that for compositional creativity. Creativity takes the truth of complex patterning in every era and applies it in new ways to the present time to reveal the truths of this time. The truths being revealed by most writers are just formula. Cartoons. At least Disney is clear about their formulas. They have no delusions so they built a great concert hall where something better could happen and hired a great non-derivative architect to do it. Nothing wrong with entertainment or commerce as long as you do not have "airs" or represent it as "one of a kind." That's reserved for creativity, authenticity and mastery. REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 4:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] Re: [p2p-research] newsweek on The Creativity Crisis REH wrote: > We...listen to 17th and 18th century junk music... Oh, no! I'm listening to Bach's cello suite. Am I listening to junk music? Who knew? I suppose Vivaldi would be worse yet? Oy. - Mike -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
