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Re: Daniel Berkman, Looping Gravikordist (was Re: should musicianshave a second job?)
You made my day. : )
-Daniel
On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:15 PM, tEd ® kiLLiAn wrote:
> BTW,
>
> Daniel, thank YOU for your wonderful music.
>
> I attended Y2KX this past October and saw your presentation at the
>little Namaste teahouse one evening and was absolutely compelled to by
>the CD afterwards.
>
> It's great listening still.
>
> Keep it up...the universe needs more like you.
>
> Best,
>
> Ted
>
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Daniel Berkman wrote:
>
>> That was beautiful, Ted. Thank you!
>>
>> -Daniel Berkman
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2011, at 8:49 AM, tEd ® KiLLiAn wrote:
>>
>>> Ahhhh . . .
>>>
>>> In some ways, I am sure, this article is merely meant as an instance
>of "tough love" from the author to a group of people he cares about and
>identifies with.
>>>
>>> He makes a number of valid points that seem to make practical sense.
>>>
>>> However, there is a lot that he grossly misses about the nature of
>"Art" as it has become in the last century or so (music included).
>>>
>>> If you turn back the clock 150 years or so, and switch the focus from
>music to painting, one can easily see that his attitude and assertions
>are nearly identical to those of the established art system of the
>"Salon" in Paris during the time of the Impressionists and
>Post-Impressionists: Monet, Degas, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and many other
>outsiders, et al.
>>>
>>> Which is to say: "Learn to be a real professional artist like
>so-and-so (like those being cranked out daily by the dues-paying system
>of schools and established galleries and patrons) or go home, give up,
>get a real job, get a life, get a clue."
>>>
>>> Can any of us who love art imagine what it would be like if there had
>never been a Vincent Van Gogh?
>>>
>>> Sure the world would've gone on turning - but it would be a lot poorer
>for it.
>>>
>>> Does anybody really remember the contributions of any of the work or
>contributions of any of the very talented folk who chose the conservative
>"establishment art" route in that period?
>>>
>>> Not many, I'd wager, remember or know of William Adolphe Beaugereau -
>perhaps the greatest academically-trained and widely successful painter
>from that era.
>>>
>>> He was rich and famous during his own time, but now is largely
>forgotten - or remembered only as a sort of historical footnote - sort of
>like the Pat Boone of the early rock 'n' roll era, or the manufactured
>and hyper-marketed boy-bands or blonde bimbette singer-sluts of today
>will be.
>>>
>>> So...
>>>
>>> A lot of us are **NOT** in it for the money or the fame (or the sex
>and drugs).
>>>
>>> I don't imagine many of us are in it "for the ages" (Art History)
>either - for that matter (LOL).
>>>
>>> Some of us are even ill-equipped and ill-disposed to be performers,
>per se . . . I know I certainly am.
>>>
>>> But some of us are nevertheless "bitten by the bug" (or the muse) and
>have a vision (or something) that drives us to create what we do.
>>>
>>> For better or worse, some of us simply can't help it.
>>>
>>> For whatever reason, the fickle universe has determined that (perhaps)
>the greater creative gifts are often given to those who did not seek them
>and would not venture to pursue them if they rightly had any choice in
>the matter.
>>>
>>> Fame and fortune may come to those who work very hard to be
>professional at their "craft" like plumbers or butchers or chemists.
>>>
>>> But fame, fortune and and "success" have very little sometimes to do
>with Art.
>>>
>>> They are irrelevant.
>>>
>>> My encouragement to any of you who want to create Art is to keep on
>doing it, no matter what, no matter who says "No." no matter who says "Go
>home, give up, get a job, cut your hair, stand up straight, fly right."
>etc., etc.
>>>
>>> Or, no matter who (on the other hand) says "Get serious, pay your
>dues, do it the way others have, compromise, join the union, do what
>sells, learn to moon-walk, play to the masses."
>>>
>>> Keep doing what you passion drives you to do - what has meaning for
>you and you alone.
>>>
>>> An audience may or may not come, but you will have done your duty to
>your gift . . . to you muse . . . to the universe.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Ted
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:55 AM, Louie Angulo wrote:
>>>
>>>> An interesting article
>>>>
>>>>
>http://diymusician.cdbaby.com/2011/01/dont-quit-your-second-day-job/?utm_source=DIYNews&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=011211
>>>>
>>>> any comments?
>>>> Luis
>>>
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