fux0r, Lord knows I agree with you %100, but emmmm, watch the hostility
Lemme tell you something, I am a classical composer through and through. I believe in the classical methods and intellectual reasoning of composition. However, I also am a Dance Music Producer. The methods of classical composition don't apply so much to Dance music, but the goal is one of the same. They key thing here is being able to adapt.
I'm Scottish and my roots are in Classical, Jazz and Dance music. I'm not a Hip-Hop producer, not because I don't want to be, but because my passion lies else where.
Passion is a wonderful thing.....making love to ur beautiful hunnie, enjoying the taste of haggis on a Sunday afternoon (am Scottish - so shoot me), Enjoying the sounds of music..........but Passion is not all good, it makes us obsessive and protective and leaves us very naive and open to much debate andc controversy. Agreed?
While I admire you passion to defend what you believe in, it doesn't make it the only thing to believe in. Now believe me, I know where ur coming from, if we cud only get rid of the money-making crap in music that wud be great - but we can't (for now anyway) or ermmmm, in the nicest possible way let's all deal with it.
The most important thing in music of all, more important that being the best in the business and knowing ur not commerical, is to LOVE WHAT YOU DO.
This is it really, as long as you love what you do, knowone can touch you. And needless to say the 'artists' who are more commercial or whatever u want to call it love doing what they do. As musicians, we may not feel that using drum loops and sample loops from Ejay is very productive and it is sick if ppl r making money this way, but let them live in the fantasy of trying to produce music, there's a lot worse things they could be doing with their time, like beating up old folk or shoot ppl - now that's something to get in a tizz about.
Everyone with musical ambition must be encouraged, it is a form of expression and love and in no way can that ever be a bad thing. What makes it bad is human interaction. The language of music is far more beautiful than humans realise or even know of, we are closed ears to the true sound of music, we are desperetly trying to keep up with it all.
Away from the philosophical view and onto Professional Conduct.
BE PROFESSIONAL, MAN!!
Nothing is more unprofessional than slating every other musician and believeing u hold the key to the musical kingdom of creativity. The keys of the musical kingdom belong to the listeners, they hold every key - it is them we have to pull and grasp with our music. I don't care what other musicians think of my music as it's my music and it is my passion that's gone into it.
One more thing.....Originality - mmmmmm ur not Musically Educated r u? NOTHING IS TRUELY ORIGINAL. proper musical anaylsis will confirm this as well as a lot of time spent listeing to works from classical to modern.
Originality comes from within the soul and how you shape the music, no matter what genre you are writing in. Of course in my personal opinion, Classical music is a no-rules way to go about it, with modern styles, you've got to have the right beat, the right bassline, the right tone, in Classical Music there are no restrictions whatsoever, however that's not to think any less about modern sytles....it's just my personal opinion, but I don't go shouting about it or calling ppl who don't write classical music and bunch of talentless wa**ers, coz they most certainly ain't
So, fux0r, while I agree in principle with what you say, it's best not to open urself (and ur music) to ridicule and debate and instead show an openess to the musical language and ppl's emotions.
And, besides I'm the first person to get ppl straight: re: Sexy Beats Natasha
to James McFadyen.