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On 27 May 2012 07:08, <hammonddave2004@yahoo.com> wrote:The definition of "DJ" is not a composer. "DJ" stands for Disk Jockey, which means someone who plays recordings of OTHER composer's compositions. Now they may mash the songs together, but does that make them composers? Or arrangers?
Why not? Your view on what constitutes a 'composer' seems to be incredibly narrow. It doesn't have to be anyone who sits down and writes a bunch of notes since music isn't necessarily anything to do with musical tones, and it surely cannot be anything to do with originality since composers have stolen from each other since we first banged two rocks together.Composers are simply people who cause air molecules to vibrate the way they want them to and that's about as much of a definition as you're going to get. Does that sound simplistic? Sure does. It even means that - dare I say this - almost anyone on earth can be a composer. And that is absolutely the case. You don't have to have studied at the Academy for that one. Now, given that DJs don't always just mash records together but may also resync them, give them their own beats, vocals, rhythm, cadence or whatever, then why are they not composers? You may not like what they do, but that is just a matter of taste.And I wouldn't be that scornful about playing around with other people's musical efforts, in a forum dedicated to an instrument whose entire existence is predicated on that model.Mike