From daniel Sent Wed, Jul 8th 1998, 22:36
From daniel Sent Wed, Jul 8th 1998, 22:36
All this talk that music must be complicated to have some artistic merit smacks of intellectual snobbery. It isn't the complicated programming <or playing for that matter> which makes a song good. It is the artistic vision and the imagination. There are many people who can play an instrument flawlessly but cannot write a song to save their life. They lack the vision; their hands can do the work but it does not matter. Then there are composers who visualize great works and use orchestras <or even samplers!> to make the sound reality. Does that make them any less an artist? Is there work now worthless? Is someone who can play an instrument <but not compose> better than this artist? If your in awe of programming ability instead of listening to the music then you should trainspot software instead. FYI: want to see the amen break twisted and distorted into something new? check out lesser: welcome to the american experience. -daniel