Sir Mustapha
Group: Musicians
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Posted: Dec. 01 2012, 10:19 |
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| Quote (Ugo @ Nov. 20 2012, 08:17) | | Regarding L+S, I know that many people here see that album as too simplistic and too electronic-based. IMHO there's nothing wrong with using machines as your main composing medium. |
I'm with you on that one. Maybe it's just my own egotistical need of self-affirmation speaking, since the computer is the sole "instrument" I play, but there's a lot of prejudice against electronic instruments perpetrated mostly by people who don't know how making art works.
It's one thing when a guy like Keith Jarrett denounces electronic instruments, because that's a conscious stylistic decision and he makes his own music. But there are those folks who have that extremely romantic, idealized vision of what making music is: that it comes from the "soul", that the musician is touched by the "muse" and that "inspiration" falls from the sky, and he "speaks" or "sings" through the instrument, and therefore the electronics break that. That's not how music works. The soul, the inspiration, the "muse" is inside the musician, and if it's there, it doesn't matter what tools he uses. The instrument is just an object; there's nothing magical or religious about it. What matters is the energy that runs through the instrument, and in that sense, an acoustic guitar and an iPhone are exactly the same thing.
In this point, I make an argument that's pretty much the opposite of Jarrett's: there is electricity all over us. Why not let it run also through the wires and the circuits and the microchips?
And, yes, my qualms with Light + Shade have entirely different reasons.
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