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Don Mann: Focusing on my Craft Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004 - 6:04 p.m. INDEED Don Mann: my god, I love classical music INDEED Don Mann: it's so ingenious tambourineintime: it was the first created it seems tambourineintime: everyone was gooving to that shit./ tambourineintime: grooving INDEED Don Mann: back then, people conveyed emotion and meaning without words, or if they used words, they were vague and the voice was used as an instrument INDEED Don Mann: not as fucking text, like it is nowadays tambourineintime: that is true tambourineintime: passionate. INDEED Don Mann: so much focus on conveying emotion through melody and harmony, rather than belting the listener in the face with lyrics tambourineintime: you have an ear for music INDEED Don Mann: I could never enjoy or even take rap seriously now having heard what people can do without words INDEED Don Mann: rap should have stayed on paper, because its making all of my contemporaries more ignorant of emotion and beauty by making itself TOO goddamn obvious INDEED Don Mann: I'll no longer tolerate singers who do not recognize their voices as instruments INDEED Don Mann: rather than just...spoken text INDEED Don Mann: I'm going to begin composing music based entirely on classical form and theory. tambourineintime: I don't lijek just beats. tambourineintime: making beats INDEED Don Mann: ugh BEATS INDEED Don Mann: percussion was used symbolically in these orchestras... INDEED Don Mann: rythm was in the musician tambourineintime: i like tempo changes tambourineintime: it really give emotion in music INDEED Don Mann: what better way to involve yourself deeper into the music than concentrating entirely on the notes and rythm you play, the tempo coming from within, not a stolid, stagnant, repetitive beat. INDEED Don Mann: Operas sung entirely without any sort of exposed rythm...orchestra choirs full of voices following the rythm of the music, not the rythm of a constant BEAT INDEED Don Mann: it bothers me so much how many will never appreciate any of that before they die INDEED Don Mann: it bother me more how few will even bother to attempt to comprehend it tambourineintime: it's becuase it's not as common anymore INDEED Don Mann: but WHY!? INDEED Don Mann: you know? It's sick. tambourineintime: no one listens to music that only gets the right side of your brian working tambourineintime: music with words doesn't phase you artistically INDEED Don Mann: well, both sides of the brain can be used to interpret any sort of stimuli... tambourineintime: adn the reason that classical can go on for so long is beucase the right side of brian tambourineintime: poeople think that a 30 minuteballad is only about 4 minutes INDEED Don Mann: I mean, the right side is all "big picture" and philosophical tambourineintime: music with lyrics doesn't last as ling INDEED Don Mann: the left is facts... INDEED Don Mann: modern music hurls facts at us. INDEED Don Mann: one must induce stimuli from within to try and see it with the right brain INDEED Don Mann: and yet no one bothers to try, because the person who created the modern music didn't care if they did or not anyways INDEED Don Mann: If you throw enough facts at someone, they're bound to relate to them INDEED Don Mann: sad stories of breakup or child abuse ALL OVER the goddamn radio trying to play a sympathy card with people's left brains INDEED Don Mann: trying to seduce them with "my god, someone else knows how I feel" INDEED Don Mann: when half the writers have put no emotion or work into what they've done. tambourineintime: that's true INDEED Don Mann: Lately I've been a flood of emotion, constructive and destructive, and I've been channeling it into raw craft and creation. I've written about 20 poems and 2 stories, and composed 6 songs in the last week. INDEED Don Mann: now I'm working on a full-scale opera tambourineintime: you should put them all toghether INDEED Don Mann: I don't know. Sometimes I feel segregation can bring focus onto a single object. tambourineintime: why do you think that? INDEED Don Mann: keeping them apart will allow them to strike their respective aims, whereas composing them together may muddle each's impact. INDEED Don Mann: for instance INDEED Don Mann: picture an art gallery INDEED Don Mann: a single wall with 30 paintings on it INDEED Don Mann: the opposite wall...with only one. INDEED Don Mann: which do you think will have a greater impact, of all the paintings? INDEED Don Mann: one of the ones in the bunch of 30 INDEED Don Mann: or the lone one tambourineintime: the lone one tambourineintime: that's the focal point INDEED Don Mann: exactly. INDEED Don Mann: All my work I intend, if released, to release so that what I want is focused upon, with as little filler or waste as possible INDEED Don Mann: It's like a band who releases an album of crap with a single hit on it...I hate that. INDEED Don Mann: or they give their all to one song, and the rest is garbage. INDEED Don Mann: I want all I create to be equivaluable tambourineintime: I feel with art work tambourineintime: everything I create is crap tambourineintime: and I never finish tambourineintime: much tambourineintime: but what I do finish.. I haveto give it away for eesle I will think it is trash tambourineintime: and throw it out INDEED Don Mann: perhaps not enough of yourself is in what you are creating tambourineintime: that could be it INDEED Don Mann: or what you've put in, of yourself, you don't like. INDEED Don Mann: I used to do the same with my writing INDEED Don Mann: I'd throw it away, claiming I hated it afterward INDEED Don Mann: half of that was because I couldn't convey what I wanted to tambourineintime: yea. INDEED Don Mann: the other half, because I hated myself, and any product of me was hated as well. tambourineintime: I feel that way tambourineintime: I don't have anyone art that I like best tambourineintime: I do it all tambourineintime: but still. I feel that most of it is terrible INDEED Don Mann: Music and writing I enjoy most now, because I don't have the skill to render what I want with my hands graphically. INDEED Don Mann: I don't know the technique, though I grasp the concepts. tambourineintime: I am just now getting an eye for art INDEED Don Mann: I'm trying to learn to appreciate it more now...find emotion in it. tambourineintime: I am probably just going to give up INDEED Don Mann: what would the advantage of that be? tambourineintime: not stressing about it tambourineintime: it's difficult to go from artist .. to .. nothng tambourineintime: i guess tambourineintime: the transition would be weird. tambourineintime: it would be like.. learning how not to read. INDEED Don Mann: Why don't you just avoid stressing about it, instead of avoiding it entirely? tambourineintime: for me those things come together tambourineintime: art is a release but it can stress me out INDEED Don Mann: hmm INDEED Don Mann: I don't know...most things that I do as a release at most just tire me. INDEED Don Mann: I can't really relate to being stressed at my craft |