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Yes, I am a musician. I play one or more instruments | 17 | 85.00% | |
No, I am not a musician. I do not play any instruments | 3 | 15.00% | |
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Although I will admit that it helps if you're writing blues lyrics. Roger -Dot- Lee
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A lot of great things have been created on the back of serious strife. The "Starving Artist" thing. The Blues is a case in point here. Wonderful music that lifts you when you're down but originally written under a cloud of oppression. Beethoven was stone deaf when he wrote the 9th Symphony and the Missa Solemnis and we all appreciate what works of genius they are. I'd go as far as saying that the 9th symphony is one of the greatest achievments in Western civilisation. But great work also comes from periods of great joy. Jon Anderson seems to me to be one of the most contented people I've ever met and he comes up with some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard. The same thing applies to Literature, Painting, Poetry and Sculpture. So in answer to your question I'd have to say Yes and No. You need inspiration to create but that doesn't always have to be negative inspiration. It can be very positive too. The American poet Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) famously wrote about trees having been inspired by their beauty. I THINK that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth's flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. ********************************* Beautiful and inspired by beauty, not angst. |
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Very interesting thread.
Where do you think talent comes into the equasion? I was thinking of some autistic children who have amazing skills, artistic and/or musical. These poor kids - because of their condition - would score quite poorly on most intelligence measures and yet they often display incredible abilities, is this just pure talent? Perhaps the problem with this discussion is that we tend to measure intelligence in specific and often quite narrow ways, being emotionally intelligent is very different from being academicaly intelligent for example. Musical / artisitc intelligence is also an aspect of human nature and can appear in greater or lesser degrees in people. I picked up guitar quite easily but have really had to work on playing piano - it does not come naturally to me. So could you say I have an innate talent for music with a predisposition to stringed instruments? Or is this becoming overly complex? And in conclusion - are people who have musical inteligence in any form more likely to appreciate 'inteligent music' as opposed to mass produced pop? |
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just like to rock.
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it is difficult for me to leave my snart-aleck self behind sometimes...
continue oh scholars of the world..... |
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(there re few things I enjoy more than giving R'n'R a hard time about these things...) Quote:
Roger -Dot- Lee, in a whimsical frame of mind...to the point where he's actually contemplating officially changing his name to Roger -Dot- Lee
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from my perspective "the myth of the starving artist" is just that. i've known some people that've almost starved from choosing a career in the arts, but it wasn't intentional. the fact is, it's very expensive for artists and musicians to create competitively. an average 6x4 painting can well cost several hundred dollars in materials. in the indie music market, a poor person has very little chance of breaking in. the technology has become more affordable, my home studio can outperform a million dollar studio from 20 years ago, but the ante to enter the game is still considerable, out of reach of the average income. TBL- starving in today's arts climate isn't an option.
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I know that this is off topic, but still I thought it interesting.
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THAT should inspire |
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So even though he was deaf, I don't know that we can suppose he was depressed when he wrote "Ode to Joy." As an opposite example, Igor Stravinsky was not deaf when he wrote the unnerving "The Rite of Spring." Quote:
To give an opposite example to the James Joyce (and to prove I too can quote poetry from memory ), here's a poem written from a negative feeling, in this case, melancholy. The famous Robert Frost poem, "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening." "Whose woods these are I think I know. His house in the village though. He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer to stop without a farmhouse near, between the woods and frozen lake, the darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake to ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep of misty frost and downy flake. These woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep." As I was writing that, I was thinking about the "art vs. craft" thing. No one will deny the art in that poem, but the amazing thing to me, having written a few things in my time, is the craft. Four stanzas, PERFECT iambic pentameter, AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD rhyme scheme. The fourth stanza uses a "no-no" in poetry, repitition, to perfect effect. It destroys the rhyme pattern, but more importantly, it is that last line that makes the whole poem work. Now, I love this poem. I think it's the most perfect poem in the English language. I don't get free verse. In fact, I laugh at free verse (not trying to start a debate on the validity of free verse - still talking about music). IMO, it's basically prose with versification and a tighter use of imagery, but I can't think of that as poetry. Poems need some sort of structure, no matter how loose (even a list poem has structure). In other words, this poem is studied still to this day because it is an example of great art AND great craft. While I agree with some of the sentiments in this thread that you don't need to know jack about music to like it and love it and appreciate it, I believe, to the core, that a knowledge of craft makes you enjoy music more than you would without knowledge of craft. I liked that Frost poem before I understood how it worked. But I like it even more when I was taught how poetry worked. Same with music. That's why they teach Music Appreciation at every university.
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there's no doubt about it, most of my musician
friends that lean to the "art" side joke about having A.D.D. there's verified cases that administering ritalin to A.D.D. patients stripped them of their creativity. in one case, the ability to play the piano vanished completely. i was one of those kids that surely would've been on ritalin today. i couldn't pass a math class to save my life, became my high school's 1st art major. some studies are suggesting that what we're calling A.D.D.(not to be confused w/ "A.D.H.D.") may well be a personality trait of the "artist/inventor" (A.I.), citing thomas edison as a prime example.
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I'm not convinced there's an "art side" or "craft side." Art is a nebulous thing that you can't pin down, but craft has no such nebulousness to it. There are hundreds of old rock records from the early 60s, and they all have pretty much the same crafting: 3 chords in verse/chorus/verse/chorus structure, then a bridge-often with a key change to 3 other chords, then back to the original three for verse/chorus. Small variations on this patter, of course. But what stood out? Art of the Beatles and the Byrds, amongst others. Who still listens to Herman's Hermits?
Would you say Lennon was on the "art side" or the "craft side"? I'd say he's an artist, but he definitely knew the craft of making music. I.e., "Art" and "Craft" are different things, but not mutually exclusive terms.
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This would be an interesting study of how a person gains artistic insight (the study probably already exists in some nature). I think we all agree that it’s something that can’t be taught, but must be learned or derived through experience. Personally I’m currently questioning the polarity of my artistic drive and its product. I know it’s good, to me, if it is real (true), and if it successfully captures emotion and atmosphere of any tone. Sorry we’re a bit off thread but all the above posts have been interesting to me. Here’s a review, with some admendments. I think most people agree that better crafted art is appreciated by and attracts people who study the craft. All ‘works of art’, be it music or paintings etc., have a craft side and an artistic side to it. Craft can be taught but art must be learned (or divinely granted ) Knowledge of the craft brings about a different appreciation and enjoyment of the piece (painting, song, poem) A person who does not know the craft can enjoy and/or appreciate the piece as much as someone in the know. Whether or not a piece is good is subjective, no matter how much craft it may or may not possess. However, history proves that well crafted art holds up longer. Autistic people can be fascinating. QuantumJo is lefthanded. Negative energy can make happy art. (I still have to examine this. I’ll have to hit some phyco forums and see what comes up there.) |
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One more thought on the "positive" versus "negative" thing - I think it is INTENSITY of feeling that generates creativity - and it may be that negative feelings are more often classified as intense than positive ones. That's why people associate negative experiences with being artistic inspiration moreso than positive experiences. But, as several people have already illustrated, strong positive emotions can be very artistically inspiring as well.
And Kirk, as far as the ADD thing goes: are you STILL talking about that? |
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BTW, can you see people discussing poetry, sculpture, art vs. craft, and inspiration on the AC/DC, Kiss, Poison type websites? Possibly, but I doubt it. Just one more piece of evidence that prog listeners are probably of a different personality than non-prog listeners. The same "tick" in our heads that makes us analyze movies makes us like prog.
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1) Totally agree with you. You do NOT have to understand the finer points of the work to appreciate or like it. BUT: 2) If you do look deeper into the circumstances behind and the technique used in the creation of the piece you can gain even more from it. The example I used of my studies JMW Turner's paintings demonstrates this. I always liked a lot of his work but knowing more about his technique and the stories behind the creation of works such as "Turnip pickers at Slough" or "Peace: Burial at sea" just enhances my enjoyment of them. You can use the same knowledge and apply it to many other artists as well. I'm not advertising here but if any of you come to London and take a couple of my walks around the city I'm sure I could show you things that don't appear in any guide book and which unless they were pointed out you may miss. I hope that that would ENHANCE your enjoyment of visiting this city. Excellent thread. I'm off to the Dream Theater fans forum now to get the same discussion going. |
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