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No, because most people's brains aren't specialized to appreciate auditory complexity in the same way as great composers. It's the same with any human activity.
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No, because most people's brains aren't specialized to appreciate auditory complexity in the same way as great composers. It's the same with any human activity.
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Okay but seriously musicians have to make money to live.
As long as the creator is making music that they love, whatever that means to them, and not diluting it to appeal to anyone else in particular, I'd still call it art, & not manufactured garbage. Sometimes it catches on, and a lot of people like it. Sometimes only a select group like it. There's a genre called ''noise'' - and while I can't stand it, I still consider it art/human expression. Some human expression is bound to be awesome or retarded to others; it's a coin toss, perhaps.
No, because most people's brains aren't specialized to appreciate auditory complexity in the same way as great composers. It's the same with any human activity. Generally great composers write for themselves privately and hit more general overtones in their work for profit. Some of the greats find a way to transcend both worlds though
It does make me wonder how we're supposed to define "selling out". Is every artist that makes some sort of concession a sellout? Writers who divide their work in chapters? Authors whose works are available as mass-market paperbacks and e-books? Musicians who sells CDs and audio files instead of performing only live? Directors who use exposition in movies and plays? Writers who let their work be adapted into the big screen? Artists who agree to appear on talk shows to promote their latest work?
And, if art is solely about expression, what is the role of critique?
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You're making "complexity" a requirement for artistic merit, which is demonstrably false. In addition, I strongly believe that art is communication, and part of making great art is being able to communicate your ideas. A poem written in Latin and read to an audience who speaks only English has no value whatsoever, no matter how skilfully or meticulously it was written.
Why not? People who do an activity for long periods of time tend to notice more variances in it than people who do not. This is also true of people who are exposed to more variety in the subject.
Anyways, I updated my original post but I still say what the man on the street would pick as "the best" wouldn't match what someone who was classically trained AND who enjoyed a wide range of genres would pick.
[MENTION=122]marm[/MENTION]ie: how could it be popular when the common people didn't have access to it for the most part? Most "technically good" music historically was commissioned by aristocrats.
@effemdoubleyew: that's exactly what I believe, technically good music is not as accessible to people who have no musical training, exposure, or natural talent for it. I disagree with the complexity thing though. Usually this is overcome by taking something very simple and doing a lot with it. Like Beethoven and those famous 3 notes.
[MENTION=122]marm[/MENTION]ie: how could it be popular when the common people didn't have access to it for the most part? Most "technically good" music historically was commissioned by aristocrats.
Why do Hipsters only listen to "non-mainstream" music? Then, once their favorite artist gets big (mainstream) they stop listening to them because they are too "mainstream" at that point. This seems like an illogical contradiction because many artists aspire to get to the top and make it "big" but it seems like they never could do this and be a true hipster. Discuss.
Back off, Dood. What is so illogical about wearing thick black plastic glasses with no lenses and paying a 200% mark up on PBR because it's "ironic"?
This is what I think about your senseless jibes against hipsters in fake glasses:
I don't really bother with attaching identity to indumentary or musical choices.