Re: Music and performance (WAS: Why does mainstream seem more like,downstream these days?)

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Nadia Salom <nadia.salom@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> but what i meant is that I always get sad when I think about a really 
>good
> piece of music dying away from our awareness... but that thought is 
>based on
> a mentality that songs and compositions are "results" of a long 
>process...
> this mentality is coming from a consumer mentality... meaning eventually 
>the
> songs are going to be out of date and eaten up or thrown away... but if 
>they
> are seen as the process the songs always continue on... and the author is
> more or less unimportant.
>
> if making music as well as listening to music is seen as a process... 
>like
> peeling of skin... musician can rid themselves of the industry... does
> anyone get this??


Certainly. Very well said! It is all about living the music.


> ... maybe our minds are just not moving fast enough to compose and 
>perform
> at the same time...not yet anyways... haha...

Our minds are slow but our instincts are super fast. We just have to
develop personal musical gestures as "instant composition modules" and
in the next phase apply a transparent instrument technology to it.
Then it becomes a no-brainer to let the musical instincts build new
compositions with those virtual building blocks.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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