Well, their ideas behind the music are their ideas behind the music. The music that results is the music that results.

Composers tend to do a terrible job articulating what's relevant in their own work. I'd take what a composer professes to be interested in with a grain of salt.

-Jonathan


From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@artengine.ca>;
To: Dominic Pflaum <dompflaum@gmail.com>;
Cc: <pd-list@iem.at>;
Subject: Re: [PD] Am I alone?
Sent: Mon, Jan 31, 2011 4:25:08 AM

On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Dominic Pflaum wrote:

> But in direct response to what you wrote, I believe there are some people who are more interested in the ideas behind the music, than the actual sounds produced; the sounds produced are almost a souvenir of the idea. It's not my approach, but who am I to say others should not look at things that way?

That's alright, but can't they call it « ideas behind music » instead of « music » ? or perhaps « ideas instead of music » ? ;)

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