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> can we get beyond our *own* limitations in this chosen medium? even those > limitations that seem fenced & barriered by what we (possibly: >mistakenly) > assume to be our heroes boundaries? > can we aspire to something of more lasting value than feeding the harsh > fecundity of a two-headed, two-dimensional societal beast with it's >continual > this-vs.-thatting? > anyway. > well. > sorry if i blathered: i do that, now & again: i mean no harm. > i promise i'll post w/something more concrete, sometime. > best to all, > david torn I apologize in turn for not answering David's questions directly. It's just that they remind me of a questionnaire my favorite college professor George Lewis asked us the first day of the Introduction To Music Making class. From memory, the questions were something like these: 1. What kinds of music do you listen to? 2. How does the music reach your ears (radio/CD player/etc.)? 3. Who decides what music will reach your ears? 4. How much of a role does money play in the way music reaches your ears (sorry, I probably phrased it wrong)? 5. How much of a role does money play in the decision-making involved in what music reaches your ears? 6. What influences your music listening choices? a. Parents (do they encourange/restrict) b. Friends (are their tastes influenced by fashion trends?) c. Media There were more questions than that of course. This questionnaire and George's playing of non-commercial music (some of it unlistenable to me at the time) pissed off some students. One of them was so pissed off that for his performance project, he simply stood up in front of class and said "This is bullshit. This is bullshit. This is..." (ad infinitum). When I first got to know George, I felt similarly for a while. If he saw cassettes in my backpack, he would pull them out, pop them into his stereo, listen to them and proceed to tellme I was listening to crap! Imagine the damage to the psyche of a young man who believed the Rippingtons and Spyro Gyra actually played jazz! ^_^ Later, I finally understood my musical tastes had been dictated to me by the radio and magazines. The music I had listened to and liked were definitely influenced by big money. I began to realize I had no appreciation for truly creative music because I hadn't been exposed to it. Gradually, I stopped listening to the radio. Today, I only listen to the radio for football games. ^_^ Paolo Valladolid ----------------------------------------------------------------- |Moderator of Digital Guitar Digest, an Internet mailing list |\ |for Music Technology and Stringed Instruments | \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- | \ finger pvallado@waynesworld.ucsd.edu for more info \ | \ http://waynesworld.ucsd.edu/DigitalGuitar/home.html \| -----------------------------------------------------------------