Re: OT: great picasso quote about abstract art

[Richard Roberts <zeroohms@surfbest.net>]

On 18 sep 2007, at 16.04, Rick Walker wrote:

I really resonated with this quotation I just discovered,   it defines my own aesthetic

about digital and acoustic sound design.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

                                                                                                                                              ---Pablo Picasso

Interesting quote! I use to reverse engineer that technique when playing improvisations. Ie thinking the structures but only playing certain notes to imply them. For a listener this touches psychedelic areas, since the complete music is put together in his mind as an act of creative participation.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen

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www.looproom.com (international)

Yes, I use something like this as well, like playing just a motif as a hint instead of an entire melody.

Richard Roberts

ZERO OHMS

"We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music."  

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC."

- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.