Music composer: Someone who composes their own music, regardless of genre. Duh.I have a question for the intellectuals in music. The term music composer. What does this entitle or whats the description, when it comes to electronic and hip hop music, thats not considered popular music?
Its just you.Is everybody crazy on this site or am I trippin.
Basic ass questions deserve basic ass answers.You people act like I asked a disrespectful question. Like if I offended you personally. The whole reason why I said intellectual was so that a person wouldnt have to put DUH! At the end of their basic ass answer.
I thought I made it clear. This question was for the intellectuals. Now pump and thrust yourself out this thread, if you can't answer with the proper edicate.
I have a question for the intellectuals in music. The term music composer. What does this entitle or whats the description, when it comes to electronic and hip hop music, thats not considered popular music?
While I understand your point, and I agree that education can be important, you actually point more to the tradition-based false dichotomy that I mentioned in an earlier post.
It's great to be educated, but it's talent (in this case, _ideas_, not playing ability) that matter. Nobody can "certify" that for you.
For example, out of the three busiest Hollywood composers of the past three or four decades (Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, and John Williams), which of the three is formally trained? If you thought Hans Zimmer or Danny Elfman, you're wrong; both are self-taught and former rock/pop band musicians. Zimmer is probably at this point the most recorded composer in Hollywood history. If he had needed a degree to "certify" him, he would never have gotten started in the first place. While lofty work, composition is not brain surgery. It is about ideas...
GJ