[NewMusic] (no subject)

[Ron Lettuce]

It's not thier fault, they've been taught for years to believe that Major keys were happy, Minor keys were sad. If it's not Happy or Sad, it must be heartless and unemotional :-(
or just confused...


lettuce

----- Original Message ----
From: Ava Mendoza <ava.mendoza at gmail.com>
To: Bay Area New Music Discussion Group <newmusic at music.mills.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 4:54:20 PM
Subject: Re: [NewMusic] (no subject)

most of the people i encounter who dislike
experimental/improvised/new/weird music give something along the lines
of "it's too intellectual" or "it doesn't have any heart" as their
argument against it. which mystifies me. i think people do like to
think of themselves as emotional or intuitive, but they mainly like a
sort of very concrete or identifiable emotion--Happy, Sad etc--whereas
more abstract or nebulous emotion is the thing that's frightening.


On 10/12/07, David Slusser <slusser at pixar.com> wrote:
> I agree, and it also seems related to the attitude
> that music is free now. Somehow, I hesitate to
> mock the iArtists, though, since most of us are
> self-appointed artists as well.  (Not you folks
> that had a title conferred on you.)
>
> On Oct 12, 2007, at 1:02 PM, Matthew Goodheart wrote:
> > Yeah, I'd agree with this. I had a number of discussions a few years
> > with folks who were cashing in on the dot com boom, and saying
> > "there's all this dough floating around, but no ones becoming some
> > big art patron with their new-found cash," to which those who were
> > cashing in replied: "Of course not, all the dot com-ers think they're
> > artists themselves."  It's just continued with the iGeneration;
> > everyone's an artist (and an Xtreme one at that. . .)
> >
> > On Oct 12, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Sarah - 21 Grand wrote:
> >
> >> I'm sorry, I'm not buying it ... after weeks of having to look at
> >> yahoo ads
> >> for HP photo paper suggesting that its users could "get creative
> >> with Gwen
> >> Stefani," I think most normal people want to think of themselves as
> >> creative, or aspire to some form of creativity. Isn't that the
> >> "lesson" of
> >> "Web 2.0"?
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