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.

Perhaps in some cases but I certainly wouldn't make that a prescriptive approach. Without understand that's Steve Reich was influenced heavily by tape machinery, West African music, and Indonesian music, you can enjoy the music, but you cannot fully understand the man. There are many other examples I could give.

Dom

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika@yahoo.com> wrote:

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>;
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Cc: <pd-list@iem.at>;
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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 Ť ideas behind music ť instead of Ť music ť ? or perhaps Ť ideas instead of music ť ? ;)

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