DeadlyKungFu wrote:smutek wrote:But what about the other meaning?
You mean that because you recorded, programed or otherwise made everything yourself it's not original, a process and doesn't make the music original.
Why is it the dumbest threads get the highest counts? You people are weird.

Yes. Thats what I mean. If the idea driving the music is not original then how original is the whole piece?
Just something for people to think about who are spouting off in kind of an elitist and snobby tone "your music is not original because you used a sample (no matter how long), but mine is original because I record farting dogs for my kicks and program all of the synth patches myself (but all of my output sounds like Boards of Canada or Aphex or Tortoise or Harmonica Phil Wiggins). So therefore I am somehow better than you."
I think its great when people program every element themselves and my hat goes off to them for their technical prowess but man, please don't kid yourself that it is some reason to consider yourself better than the next kid who conciously decides to use existing material to make his art and express himself.
Some of the attitudes in this thread seem to reflect an attitude that orginal= I am better (with original,in this case, meaning I program everything myself) but how original are you if you are writing yet another epic trance track, or drummy techno track, or dissonant "IDM" piece?
So again, its something for some people to think about and a message for them to get the hell down from their high horses and just do what moves them. Ofcourse people suck who lack any type of creative motivation and make a track in 5 minutes out of canned loops, but fuck it man, let them have their fun. If they lack the creative motivation they will eventually move on to something else anyway, if they are a shiester then it will eventually come out in the wash.
Everything we make is a result of what we have experienced and been influenced by. There are no original ideas.
As to your second question, I don't know.
And regarding your statement, I agree.
