[PD] Am I alone?

[Dominic Pflaum]

>
> Composers tend to do a terrible job articulating what's relevant in their
> own work. I'd take what a composer professes to be interested in with a
> grain of salt.
>

Perhaps in some cases but I certainly wouldn't make that a prescriptive
approach. Without understand that's Steve Reich was influenced heavily by
tape machinery, West African music, and Indonesian music, you can enjoy the
music, but you cannot fully understand the man. There are many other
examples I could give.

Dom

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well, their ideas behind the music are their ideas behind the music. The
> music that results is the music that results.
>
> Composers tend to do a terrible job articulating what's relevant in their
> own work. I'd take what a composer professes to be interested in with a
> grain of salt.
>
> -Jonathan
>
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> * From: * Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>;
> * To: * Dominic Pflaum <dompflaum at gmail.com>;
> * Cc: * <pd-list at iem.at>;
> * Subject: * Re: [PD] Am I alone?
> * Sent: * Mon, Jan 31, 2011 4:25:08 AM
>
>   On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Dominic Pflaum wrote:
>
> > But in direct response to what you wrote, I believe there are some people
> who are more interested in the ideas behind the music, than the actual
> sounds produced; the sounds produced are almost a souvenir of the idea. It's
> not my approach, but who am I to say others should not look at things that
> way?
>
> That's alright, but can't they call it « ideas behind music » instead of
> « music » ? or perhaps « ideas instead of music » ? ;)
>
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