From Otto Koppius Sent Mon, Oct 20th 1997, 14:28
From Otto Koppius Sent Mon, Oct 20th 1997, 14:28
Graham/lwtcdi wrote a lot of things that made good sense, but lost it here: > For starters, I don't really believe all this crap about music having > soul. This may offend some people, Don't worry, I'll take the bait. BTW, people who have seen "Dead Poets Society" will notice a striking similarity in this discussion (hence the subject title). > but the only things that matter are > diversity and originality. This is what forms so called emotion or soul > in music (for me). When artists excel at these two, the music becomes > soulful. It's certainly not some kind of magical force or channel of > emotions into music or anything like that... *sigh* See, that's precisely what you get from overanalyzing and intellectualizing the music (the chin-stroking syndrome, anyone?). The main purpose of music is to *express* emotion, to *provoke* emotion. Emotion is not something that can be rationalized in terms of diversity and originality. Oh yeah, this track has 79% diversity and 91% originality, so now I can calculate it's emotion. Exaggarated as this may sound, this *is* what you're saying basically. Emotion is about FEELING! Have you never been nearly moved to tears by a track? Have you never felt shivers down your spine when hearing certain intros ? THAT'S emotion! THAT'S soul! Otto "Oh captain, my captain"