[sdiy] Re: my little comment somehow got out of hand :P

[M.A. Koot]

Hi,

I'd like to react on your comment Nate, I couldn't agree with you more.
More than 10 years ago I also discovered these kind of people (I'm 23 yrs,
so not that old yet), and I truely detested them. People who go to
conservatoria (if that's an english word) have great playing and
theory-skills but totally lack in creativity and originality. I still know
dozens of those kind of people, they are in masses.
For a long time I was a fanatic against these people but once you have to
let it go, it's just not stoppible. That's just the way it works I guess.

But I still think that you can notice if one piece of musical composition is
creative or not (while hoping it's not stolen from someone else of coarse,
which sadly enough happens more and more..). There are still bands and
groups around who I believe to be truely musical, fresh, creative and
original. The sad thing is that most "empty" musics still seems to be
preferred by the masses though.
You must consider that most people can't see a certain depth and originality
in music. They fall easily for camouflaged music as loads of reverb and that
kind of things and things like "succes chords" as I like to call certain
standard "always reaching succes" kind of chords and chordprogressions.
And as I read I see that there are still more people who see this blindness
that the mass has, and as long as those people, like here, are around, I can
live with it. You can't show the masses what they can't see anyhow.

P.S. I'd also like to add that I also experienced first hand that only true
talent can -stay- original. When you are producing and composing music, you
will have to come up with something you haven't done allready, and it still
has to be good and harmonic and everything. In the years I have composing
music I experienced it has been harder and harder to keep getting new ideas
which I, or others, hadn't come up with yet, and still have that problem.
But I refuse to go to simple and flat music, or copy someone else, I just
can't see the beauty in that. Lots of artist most probably would have to
make a living out of it, and that's probably the reason why they do this,
due to lack of true creativity and maby no other option. That's the reason
why I did not choose the risk to make a living out if it either. I guess you
only can if you are a true talent, and those are rare.

Cheers,
Michiel
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