From lwtcdi Sent Tue, Oct 21st 1997, 12:17
From lwtcdi Sent Tue, Oct 21st 1997, 12:17
wells wrote: > > At 02:19 AM 10/20/97 +0100, lwtcdi wrote: > > > >For starters, I don't really believe all this crap about music having > >soul. This may offend some people, 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... > > > you start off by saying you don't believe that "crap about music having a > soul" and then go on to define exactly what makes music soulful. > > care to explain? I thought this might happen. I should've explained myself a little better. What I really mean is that diversity and orginality are the elements in music which other people choose to call 'soul' in music. It's as simple as that (I hope). As I tried to explain, a lot of people assume that soulfulness/emotion cannot be defined in music in any other than these God-like terms. In turn this leads people to believe that they cannot make music just as good as the stuff they listen to, which I suppose was the case with other musical forms which required proficiency in a particular instrument, but electronic music doesn't take this kind of 'talent', it just requires good ideas and the will to make the music in the first place (which is a little different). That's all that I really wanted to say... Gb.