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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Jimmy Fowler wrote: > ok...gotta jump in on this one... > > i wouldn't say that dj spooky or whomever is on the same level as, say, >yoyo ma. not even close. and virtuosity doesn't make one any more or >less of a musician. creating something out of nothing makes you an >artist or a creator. regarding music, creating sound out of silence >makes you a musician, silence being the total absense of what one will >ultimately go on to create...as in: the song isn't written yet, so it >isn't music...or something like that. > > may i offer an analogy: john coltrane vs. dj spooky > > coltrane would be painting on a blank canvas with only the colors > within his technical range available. so he paints a picture. dj > spooky comes along and cuts the painting into tiny and not-so-tiny > pieces (along with multiple other paintings, as suits his fancy). he > then reassembles them to make a "new" creation. key word: reassembles. > he's not taking nothing and making something...rather, he's just taking > what's already there and rearranging it. if you take the frame of your > '88 toyota and put a honda hood, chevy doors, and a vw engine in/on it, > you haven't built a totally new car. you've just taken parts of > pre-existing cars and mushed them together so that perhaps it looks new, > drives differently, and gets better gas mileage but the parts still > belonged to cars that were already in existence. With the caveat that the last time I saw DJ Spooky perform live, he had a number of instruments with him (including an electric upright bass), and *played them live*. Yes, he sampled himself and then mangled them, worked them into samples, and spent much of the performance working with other peoples' sounds, but it's not quite accurate to say he only reassembles others' sounds. best, Steve -- Steve Burnett burnett@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~burnett/ System Administration Technical Documentation Information Retrieval