tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post115764460446087962..comments2024-03-27T23:45:06.093+01:00Comments on Renewable Music: PrivateDaniel Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-1157861565750260082006-09-10T06:12:00.000+02:002006-09-10T06:12:00.000+02:00I've lost a couple of paying clients and a few acq...I've lost a couple of paying clients and a few acquaintances in the 18 months since starting up my photoblog, but I figure that just goes with the territory when you have a strong voice. Which you do have.<BR/><BR/>God has given me many gifts, but being able to compose music or sing on pitch are not among them, so reading about the process from somebody who can is fascinating. And your private/public mix feels just about right.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-1157743293696772222006-09-08T21:21:00.000+02:002006-09-08T21:21:00.000+02:00I would say there's a divide between artists who s...I would say there's a divide between artists who see the process as the art -- guys like, say, Warhol and Cage -- and the ones who think the process is of no interest, only the outcome. I think of the passage in Woolf's 'Orlando' where the protagonist writes a novel- the character sits down to a desk in front of a window and a bird hops across the lawn outside. I am very sympathetic to that approach. Making a finished piece of art is a grinding, tedious, internal process that isn't especially interesting to watch- the composer sits in a chair and puts notes in a row, and then erases some, and then goes away and thinks for a while and changes what he wrote before or maybe writes a little more.<BR/><BR/>A composer's desire for privacy, then, I consider to be (to use high-falutin' phraseology) Appolonian- he wants his piece to be perceived as something pure and isolate and inevitable, not all mixed-up with what books he's been reading, the state of his marraige, his revisions and human self-doubts during the composition process.<BR/><BR/>That's just a hunch, though.Trevor Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16221799347828939364noreply@blogger.com