Korgscrew
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Posted: Mar. 07 2003, 13:42 |
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Let me see now...
Quote | artist=a person who communicate feelings and thoughts with the medium he use |
The question of 'what is art?' is one of those which goes on all the time, stirring every so often, but never coming to rest. It seems that the most precise definition we're ever going to get is that art is what society deems to be art. But it's sometimes nothing more than something an individual deems to be of artistic value...to some, the re-recorded Tubular Bells may be art, to some a good piece of craftsmanship and to some, worthless. Many hold Van Gough's sunflowers to be art, yet it's something he painted more than once - does this reduce their value as art, in the eyes of society?
So an artist is one who creates art, this indefinable thing, and we arrive at more questions than answers.
Quote | mike is more than happy, believe me - if you think that he's missing Z-hours for eating his heart over a mistake of a guitar part he made some 30 years ago, than i'm more than happy to suggest you're a tad bit naive. |
Might I ask, liron, if you record music yourself? There have been times when, due to time constraints and similar factors, I've ended up recording parts which I've felt are not quite how I'd wanted, for one reason or another. Sometimes it's difficult to listen to them again without wishing for the opportunity to do them again in a different way, to just make those few tweaks needed to make the thing just right. I would imagine that Mike finds himself in the same situation with Tubular Bells, that every out of tune guitar, bum note and bad edit plays on his mind like a fly buzzing round the room, every time he hears it...and what he wants to do more than anything is let that fly out.
That's not to say that there aren't other factors involved - let's not forget that, for every three album contract that Mike's had from Warner, one of the three has always been a Tubular Bells album.
Actually, musicians recording their own work isn't unheard of - Joni Mitchell, for example, released an album of some of her past songs re-recorded with added orchestra (sound familiar? ), while other musicians have been involved with more slavish recreations (Jack Bruce re-recording Cream songs comes to mind, and I'm sure there are better examples, though they escape me at present).
Quote | five albums i put into the "commited artist" basket: "TB, HR, OM, INC, AMA" - the rest are experimentations with studio and computer technology and/or style and sound. non of which can hold water. |
I'd put Incantations into the experimentation bracket as well - it's an experiment with a particular series of notes, and they pervade everything. That's not to discount its worth, but to say that I don't feel that albums can be discounted as having worth simply because they're some form of experiment. It's true that some experiments work better than others though, but what's successful and what isn't may depend on the eye or ear of the beholder (Mike, for example, went on record saying that most of Incantations is rubbish, a point which many don't agree with...).
And by the way - I communicate feelings and thoughts through the media of speech and writing quite regularly, does that make me an artist?
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