The Purist's View
What constitutes to being a "Musician"?
Is the street busker, the village bard or the punk guitarist any less of a musician?
So who says you must have your licentiate or your theory grade 8 to be a full-fledged musician?
And so what constitutes a "proper" performance?
Is the school hall performance, a bard singing to the folk in the village square, or a jamming session in the studio any less of one too?
Must there always be a raised platform for the performers and a seating gallering for paying audience before the performance becomes proper?
And here i see the flaw in my thinking where fusion performances involving dance and music is of lesser status.
Confetti does not cheapen the performance (although it is still damn cheesy).
Badly arranged fusion arrangements are not a bad thing.
The purist view i have doesn't hold true.
Come on... let go and move on.
And this is response to a question posed to me a few nights ago...
"When it changes so much, will you still recognise it as fantasy?"
So my question is "When does fantasy stop being fantasy?"
Isn't it all in our imaginations?
Is the street busker, the village bard or the punk guitarist any less of a musician?
So who says you must have your licentiate or your theory grade 8 to be a full-fledged musician?
And so what constitutes a "proper" performance?
Is the school hall performance, a bard singing to the folk in the village square, or a jamming session in the studio any less of one too?
Must there always be a raised platform for the performers and a seating gallering for paying audience before the performance becomes proper?
And here i see the flaw in my thinking where fusion performances involving dance and music is of lesser status.
Confetti does not cheapen the performance (although it is still damn cheesy).
Badly arranged fusion arrangements are not a bad thing.
The purist view i have doesn't hold true.
Come on... let go and move on.
And this is response to a question posed to me a few nights ago...
"When it changes so much, will you still recognise it as fantasy?"
So my question is "When does fantasy stop being fantasy?"
Isn't it all in our imaginations?