Re: circus animals? (Re: WAS: Who uses looping in their promo material? NOW:Prerecordedmaterial)

["Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

Many people are mistaken in their belief that country bass is simple
because of the relatively small number of notes employed.

Has anyone seen the preview for this documentary, "My Kid Could Paint 
That"?:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0912592/trailers-screenplay-E33736-10-2

Very interesting in regards to "experimental" or "avant garde" art forms.



On 9/13/07, max valentino <ekstasis1@hotmail.com> wrote:


>
>  A few years back I got into a bit of hot water with the "experimental 
>music" community.  I was playing an expertimental music festival, and 
>this event was being filmed for a documentary.  I was early and was being 
>interviewed.  The question arose as to what makes an "experimental 
>musician", and I replied that a great number who classify themselves by 
>that title do so simply because they cannot play their instruments very 
>well...if at all.  It easy to be "experimental" when you don't know what 
>it is you are doing.  Not that that is a bad thing neccessarily...it 
>certainly qualifies as self-expression.  But, is beating the face of a 
>guitar with a bologna sandwhich really a musical expression...or just 
>silliness?  Many "experimental" players have no concept of structure, 
>which exists even in "free" playing, know neither how to listen nor how 
>to hear, and while they can, for the most part, manipulate whatever 
>machine(s) they are employing to perform the tasks they were designed 
>for, most cannot really "play" those machines; work them in a matter from 
>which they coax the music out of both the machine and themselves.