well.....i love your music..AND i'm drunk...hope you'll have a nice weekend---i'm intoducing you to a friend of mine... i dream of seeing you live someday.
Thank you for replying! I very much appreciate it. My comment was very much simply an exercise in self-criticism as well. That quote reminded me so much of ideals I've toyed with myself for many years and hearing someone else finally saying the same thing that I've been saying gave me the "objective perspective", so to speak. I greatly appreciate what you are saying about imitation, though. There is no doubt that most people do not understand the concept that music can imitate life and all sound--visuals even--tastes, smells, emotions of all kinds--not just other music. At least for my own music and that which I enjoy. This is why I enjoy your music. I can tell you are indeed creating something new in that it is not wholly derivative of other music. Cheers, right back. If you come through the states through Minneapolis, I will definitely come out to support--and bring friends. Tear things up, mates.
great stuff, gents. and thanks for the add. your music is seriously some of the most original sounding stuff i've heard in a while. really great.
i must say, i like a lot of what you said in your "About Ulterior" section. but i think it is ridiculous to think that the solution to bad art and culture is to destroy our memory of and connection to the past. i think going to either extreme (classical imitation or artistic nihilism) is what destroys art and culture. your music, though fairly original, still calls the past to mind. the jesus and mary chain--enough said.
i agree we should move away from living so mimetically, but to destroy our connection to the past is to throw the baby out with the bathwater--which is all well and good for masturbating our romantic sentiment--but destroys the good with the bad.
scientific reduction is the enemy of art. it is just as oppressive a force as religion, but without the conscience. in fact, science is the secularization of the destructive Western force
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