This is an amazing observation, and it is evidence that it might not be a good idea to spend too much energy trying to suppress a creative impulse. Not that suppression was Mattieu's intention, this little gem may owe it's existence to his criticism! I just hope artists will have the courage to follow through with their impulses, even though they may face some unsympathetic criticism.
Just don't not do it,
Collin
On 12/20/2010 04:22 PM, pd-list-request@iem.at wrote:
Maybe the wisdom is exactly that, that a censored world will sound just like a non-censored world, and one will not be able to percept that "something is missing", which is dangerous if you think about it. Imagine you go home one day and some important things of yours have been stolen but you go on without noticing their absence, even with the time passing. Scary!
Andras
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Collin Oldham wrote:
Not that suppression was Mattieu's intention, this little gem may owe it's existence to his criticism! I just hope artists will have the courage to follow through with their impulses, even though they may face some unsympathetic criticism.
If I were just unsympathetic I'd just dismiss it without explanation.
If I spend time talking about it, it's because I care.
| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC
On 12/22/2010 11:34 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Collin Oldham wrote:
Not that suppression was Mattieu's intention, this little gem may owe it's existence to his criticism! I just hope artists will have the courage to follow through with their impulses, even though they may face some unsympathetic criticism.
If I were just unsympathetic I'd just dismiss it without explanation.
If I spend time talking about it, it's because I care.
| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC
Thank you for also caring about my comment. What I mean by "unsympathetic criticism," is criticism that comes from a point of view of not liking the thing that is being criticized. Some people need a little courage to receive that kind. I don't know if your point of view is sympathetic in this case, but if it's not, well of course that's perfectly valid too.
The point that I thought was worth trying to make is that artists should not let fear of criticism preempt their creative impulses. Not that anyone involved in this conversation is in danger of doing that, but some readers of this list might be.
Collin
P.S. sorry I misspelled your name, Mathieu.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Collin Oldham wrote:
Thank you for also caring about my comment. What I mean by "unsympathetic criticism," is criticism that comes from a point of view of not liking the thing that is being criticized. Some people need a little courage to receive that kind. I don't know if your point of view is sympathetic in this case, but if it's not, well of course that's perfectly valid too.
Well, yes and no, I don't like that the work doesn't seem to be connecting the topic of the input data to the musical experience, but I like that artists attempt to talk about online censorship and politics.
The point that I thought was worth trying to make is that artists should not let fear of criticism preempt their creative impulses.
That's something that they're supposed to have learned early in their BFA and/or MFA degrees, if they went that route. Otherwise, they have to learn it anyway.
P.S. sorry I misspelled your name, Mathieu.
Consider yourself lucky to not have to get the pronunciation right ;)
| Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- Villeray, Montréal, QC
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