Really interesting video! If you look at art and music throughout the ages, it’s all derivative. Artists and composers copied the work of the master they studied under or the school or movement they were a part of and then built upon or departed from that work. IMO, everything has been done - from Mozart to Musique Concrete. I think you make a great point when you talk about how uniqueness comes from the unique experiences of the artist. Ultimately, I think uniqueness is an overrated concept because everything is fundamentally derivative. Personally, I feel it’s more important to focus on my craft, build skills, explore, experiment, challenge myself to be better than I was yesterday, speak from personal experience, and hope that something interesting pops out in the end. Thanks for sharing!!
Hey, thanks for your comment. I think you're right in saying the focus should be on the craft. Uniqueness (or a derivative form of it) will probably happen anyway if you keep exploring and aim to challenge yourself! 😄
During the beginning of your presentation, .. the thought came to me, that this sounds like these are truths for arts, in general. And then, you essentially mentioned that very thing. Reading a book, about portrait painting, .. the speak was about "talent", and of course, the importance of it. And, at the end of this fairly short bit, the author finished by saying .. "If you feel that you have something to say .. most likely, you have talent." For the modularists .. we should be encouraged, .. it seems like there is plenty of pallets, to "paint" from.
Hi Ken, thanks for the comment. Yes, so many pallets, and varied too. Inspiration and influence can strike from anywhere, sometimes from outside of our own domain. 🙂
Really interesting thoughts! In philosophy, “synthesis” is something like combining different ideas to create something new. Likewise, our music is a synthesis of our interests - whether we’re using a synthesiser or not!
Hi Richard, yeah, we don't always realize what influences show up in our own creations, because we don't hear them, until someone points them out, usually its because we have mixed genre's and not realized, also artists we have never heard of get in there, if you know what I mean?
It's surprising how we can hear things differently. There've been times when I've gone out of my way to not sound like a certain artist or band, only to have someone listen and say "oh that reminds me of so and so"!
r u neek? We need more neeks. I remember this from funny signs in my neck of the woods. Charles Ives remembered his father saying, "If you know how to write a fugue the right way, then I’m willing to have you try the wrong way."
What is the one thing we recognise in great music? My thoughts on how to develop that for yourself. 🙂
Really interesting video! If you look at art and music throughout the ages, it’s all derivative. Artists and composers copied the work of the master they studied under or the school or movement they were a part of and then built upon or departed from that work. IMO, everything has been done - from Mozart to Musique Concrete. I think you make a great point when you talk about how uniqueness comes from the unique experiences of the artist. Ultimately, I think uniqueness is an overrated concept because everything is fundamentally derivative. Personally, I feel it’s more important to focus on my craft, build skills, explore, experiment, challenge myself to be better than I was yesterday, speak from personal experience, and hope that something interesting pops out in the end. Thanks for sharing!!
Hey, thanks for your comment. I think you're right in saying the focus should be on the craft. Uniqueness (or a derivative form of it) will probably happen anyway if you keep exploring and aim to challenge yourself! 😄
During the beginning of your presentation, .. the thought came to me, that this sounds like these are truths for arts, in general. And then, you essentially mentioned that very thing.
Reading a book, about portrait painting, .. the speak was about "talent", and of course, the importance of it. And, at the end of this fairly short bit, the author finished by saying .. "If you feel that you have something to say .. most likely, you have talent."
For the modularists .. we should be encouraged, .. it seems like there is plenty of pallets, to "paint" from.
Hi Ken, thanks for the comment. Yes, so many pallets, and varied too. Inspiration and influence can strike from anywhere, sometimes from outside of our own domain. 🙂
@@justrichardcharles Hope you keep going on your journey. I do think that your interest in this kind of thing, is an important thing.
Thanks, I'll do my best 🙂
Really interesting thoughts! In philosophy, “synthesis” is something like combining different ideas to create something new. Likewise, our music is a synthesis of our interests - whether we’re using a synthesiser or not!
Synthesis aplenty! 😀
Hi Richard, yeah, we don't always realize what influences show up in our own creations, because we don't hear them, until someone points them out, usually its because we have mixed genre's and not realized, also artists we have never heard of get in there, if you know what I mean?
It's surprising how we can hear things differently. There've been times when I've gone out of my way to not sound like a certain artist or band, only to have someone listen and say "oh that reminds me of so and so"!
r u neek? We need more neeks.
I remember this from funny signs in my neck of the woods.
Charles Ives remembered his father saying, "If you know how to write a fugue the right way, then I’m willing to have you try the wrong way."
I like this! The idea of writing the wrong way once you can do the right way!