Friday, September 15, 2006

computerised post-modernism

Being a young musican bred on Sabbath, The Stones, Jethro Tull, etc. I used to dispise the idea of the 'dj' as i found it to lack musical creativity and come no where close to the master musicianship possessed by Ozzy and Mick. I maintained the idea that music had to be written by someone and a new song would be created in each work. The guitar, piano, flute, voice to name a few were the only things capable of creating 'music'. Then i discovered the computer and its use past word. Ironicly for this paper I have never been one whom has grasped the technological rhelm with great ease or appeal (i had only discovered what a blog was just before taking this paper). Things seemed to make a lot more sense on pen and paper. Yet the computer with the more i understand of it each day continually progresses my thinking into the postmodern. My younger brother showed me one day fruitloops and what he had created using a mouse, screen and and whole lots of 0's and 1's. Within this creation i heard and saw a montage of beats and rythyms layered with Freddie Mercury's voice belting out Another One Bites the Dust. It hit me like a bird flying into glass. Music is everywhere. It doesnt matter if it is not created in the conventional way with four people sitting around with different instruments throwing around chords and harmonies. Music is an artform and has no boundries. The introduction of music in the techological age allows for not only new works to be created, but also old to be transformed into something new. If it wasnt music then why else would so many people have fallen into the rave culture and today still the busiest clubs are those packed with electronic music.

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