"Making your own music"

[re:dream]

Yup.

If you enjoy making it
If other people enjoy hearing it
If it moves you or them
Welcome to the club

[H20nly]

I don’t know why people can’t agree about what art truly is. It’s simple really.

Art is a means of self expression. Nothing more, nothing less. Good art resonates with people and art is increasingly artistic as the amount of self-expression increases.

Playing MP3s on an iPod is not art because it’s not self expression. It’s pushing play. Playing 3 random loops layered together isn’t art either because it’s random and not a means of self expression. Anyone could do it.

Mixing a technically perfect track, making an uninspired track in a generic music style without any creative input or playing bass guitar like a robot without feel isn’t art either, even if you’re technically skilled. It’s a trick that anyone with enough time and dedication could do. It's a skill. Skill is often a foundation of good art but being skilled at something doesn’t make you an artist.

Producing something interesting on your computer with a lot of personal creative choices and input is art, even if it’s sample based. Playing a piece of music on an instrument with feel or, even better, your own personal composition that reflects your personality and resonates with others is art.

This is what art is all about. Art is the language of the human soul.

[eyeknow]

But it's fair to say what you don't like as well. I mean, sometimes it seems like you should like ALL art. Well, I don't. I also don't believe that formulated "music" is art. They may be talented but when it's all exactly the same, it's not art, it's a product.

In music for example, most people could give a f... all about "art" but just want to dance, or be entertained.

In the end, who am I to judge. I've been that guy, but I don't think it gets anyone anywhere.

[stringtapper]

I don’t know why people can’t agree about what art truly is. It’s simple really.

Art is a means of self expression. Nothing more, nothing less. Good art resonates with people and art is increasingly artistic as the amount of self-expression increases.

Playing MP3s on an iPod is not art because it’s not self expression. It’s pushing play. Playing 3 random loops layered together isn’t art either because it’s random and not a means of self expression. Anyone could do it.

Mixing a technically perfect track, making an uninspired track in a generic music style without any creative input or playing bass guitar like a robot without feel isn’t art either, even if you’re technically skilled. It’s a trick that anyone with enough time and dedication could do. It's a skill. Skill is often a foundation of good art but being skilled at something doesn’t make you an artist.

Producing something interesting on your computer with a lot of personal creative choices and input is art, even if it’s sample based. Playing a piece of music on an instrument with feel or, even better, your own personal composition that reflects your personality and resonates with others is art.

This is what art is all about. Art is the language of the human soul.

I thought you said it was simple?!

Then you come with all of these rules and stipulations?!

What's a dilettante to do?!

[stringtapper]

How about this:

"Death is art, thus everyone gets a chance to be an artist." — Me

Eh, eh?

No…?

[H20nly]

if death is art, we're all making the same art... is that plagiarism? or... is it like sampling the art of the first human to die and making it our own version?





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[Stromkraft]

if death is art, we're all making the same art... is that plagiarism? or... is it like sampling the art of the first human to die and making it our own version? [/img]

"If you’re concerned about dying, don’t worry, I promise you, that we will all die, successfully."

-- Sogyal Rinpoche (Tweet, also said in a few movies and books)

Update: I regret posting a quote from this twat even as the content is both meaningful and hilarious.