I think this is the difference between a band that's liked momentarily, for a few months at most, if not just a few listens, and something you come back to consistantly. Anything can please me for no good reason, I'm hooked on Beyonce's new dancey song thing, but I know I'll be deleting it within a month. I can't even go any deeper than that song because she's a dead-end to me, I know her other stuff will not please me.
On the other hand, there's music I have respect for, but just plainly don't like. Antony comes to mind, as much as I want to like him, I can only really enjoy a few songs of his.
As for Ryoji Ikeda, does the artism really make the music? Not really, there was some guy, equally interesting, that took random data such as stock market indexes and pi and generated noise based off of that. Wasn't that great. Ryuchi Sakamoto has some more electronic crap similar to Ryoji Ikeda, and it also does not fit my fancy. Alva Noto again does the similar, and I just seem to like him. It's just my personal taste that attracts me to the music, the backstory sometimes creates something more to look into that brings it beyond music.
This reminds me of going to the MoMA, it was very visceral. I saw a lot of stuff that I wouldn't want in my living room not because it was poor art, but because it didn't fit my fancy. Some of it I could recognize as the art it was, such as an age reversed family of kids with adult features and adults with childlike features. Art, but the execution was not fanciful to me. It could have been. Other stuff was less on the art scale but just so much more suited to my personality to evoke my thoughts and enjoyment. I guess tweens listen to mychem because it makes them think while enjoying the sounds.
So it really just comes down to personal preference I think, no different than food or dating or hobbies or whatever. There's maturity in there somewhere too, I used to hate onions and most people don't eat broccoli when it's damn delicious, just like some peopel can't enjoy beyond a picture book or a good piece of art at the musuee.
Or maybe it's just a higher vibrational level.
Your music is alien to me. It's so far removed from anything I'm regularly exposed to that I cannot begin to comprehend it.
The same could be said for you, most people can't tolerate music that's half as removed from mainstream as the music you listen to. I know you really like it, and I know I've tried to listen to some of it, but I find for the most part I just don't like the sound of how it's recorded, there's something about audio quality in old music that just does not bode well to my tastes. I don't think the difference between us is artistic integrity, or vulgarity, or self-maturity or musical passion, it's just personal taste. I listen to where I hear beauty, and you follow some same self-metric for musical enjoyment. I say just take what other people have wasted their time on, browse what they've accomplished and see where you can improve yourself from it. Kind of like how everyone says 'wikipedia is a great starting point.'
Oh goodness, I'm not so sure what I could say about why is there crappy art? You could say it's people not pushing themselves enough, but then that's saying that they could make great art. And at best most people have their one standout portfolio piece. Great artists generally have an extended breadth of great works, and so you could say that it is some quality or talent about them paired with their finding of the right niche. Now you can question, did the failure artist find the wrong niche in life, or is the great artist more capable in all regards? I like to think, and tell people that they can accomplish anything and that they're great but have a flaw in attitude or in life, something that's holding them back. But I know most people given any circumstance cannot produce merit. My former thoughts brew from isolation with the wonderful me, and the latter is conclusive experience. Some people just have a knack and talent for living and the rest are here to make the economy go round to continue everything. It's terrible though when the greatly talented waste their time by bad habit or circumstance.
I think this is the difference between a band that's liked momentarily, for a few months at most, if not just a few listens, and something you come back to consistantly. Anything can please me for no good reason, I'm hooked on Beyonce's new dancey song thing, but I know I'll be deleting it within a month. I can't even go any deeper than that song because she's a dead-end to me, I know her other stuff will not please me.
On the other hand, there's music I have respect for, but just plainly don't like. Antony comes to mind, as much as I want to like him, I can only really enjoy a few songs of his.
As for Ryoji Ikeda, does the artism really make the music? Not really, there was some guy, equally interesting, that took random data such as stock market indexes and pi and generated noise based off of that. Wasn't that great. Ryuchi Sakamoto has some more electronic crap similar to Ryoji Ikeda, and it also does not fit my fancy. Alva Noto again does the similar, and I just seem to like him. It's just my personal taste that attracts me to the music, the backstory sometimes creates something more to look into that brings it beyond music.
This reminds me of going to the MoMA, it was very visceral. I saw a lot of stuff that I wouldn't want in my living room not because it was poor art, but because it didn't fit my fancy. Some of it I could recognize as the art it was, such as an age reversed family of kids with adult features and adults with childlike features. Art, but the execution was not fanciful to me. It could have been. Other stuff was less on the art scale but just so much more suited to my personality to evoke my thoughts and enjoyment. I guess tweens listen to mychem because it makes them think while enjoying the sounds.
So it really just comes down to personal preference I think, no different than food or dating or hobbies or whatever. There's maturity in there somewhere too, I used to hate onions and most people don't eat broccoli when it's damn delicious, just like some peopel can't enjoy beyond a picture book or a good piece of art at the musuee.
Or maybe it's just a higher vibrational level.
Your music is alien to me. It's so far removed from anything I'm regularly exposed to that I cannot begin to comprehend it.
The same could be said for you, most people can't tolerate music that's half as removed from mainstream as the music you listen to. I know you really like it, and I know I've tried to listen to some of it, but I find for the most part I just don't like the sound of how it's recorded, there's something about audio quality in old music that just does not bode well to my tastes. I don't think the difference between us is artistic integrity, or vulgarity, or self-maturity or musical passion, it's just personal taste. I listen to where I hear beauty, and you follow some same self-metric for musical enjoyment. I say just take what other people have wasted their time on, browse what they've accomplished and see where you can improve yourself from it. Kind of like how everyone says 'wikipedia is a great starting point.'
Oh goodness, I'm not so sure what I could say about why is there crappy art? You could say it's people not pushing themselves enough, but then that's saying that they could make great art. And at best most people have their one standout portfolio piece. Great artists generally have an extended breadth of great works, and so you could say that it is some quality or talent about them paired with their finding of the right niche. Now you can question, did the failure artist find the wrong niche in life, or is the great artist more capable in all regards? I like to think, and tell people that they can accomplish anything and that they're great but have a flaw in attitude or in life, something that's holding them back. But I know most people given any circumstance cannot produce merit. My former thoughts brew from isolation with the wonderful me, and the latter is conclusive experience. Some people just have a knack and talent for living and the rest are here to make the economy go round to continue everything. It's terrible though when the greatly talented waste their time by bad habit or circumstance.
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