fronobulax
Bassist, GAD and the Hot Mess Mods
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I'd check out some of the listed ones that I know nothing about
Without previous content, what can a "DJ" play with their instrument?
Bach lifted and WROTE music based on what he heard. Led Zeppelin took songs and played them, possible rearranged them. I don't mind someone stealing a riff or two, or doing a cover. But at least they are PLAYING the instrument. Without previous content, what can a "DJ" play with their instrument? Which is what? A mixer and a bunch or empty music files they downloaded?
There are strong, unreconcilable opinions.
I wouldn't like a some created from clips and pasted together composition.
If the musicians walked off the stage and the music never changed, that would really turn me off. It spawns too many questions. Do they every really play what I'm hearing or do they often instrument synch?
I know of one soft of like that, that is fine. At the end of Peter Gabriel's Secret World Tour show, all the performers get transported down a conveyor belt, get off at one spot and hop into what looks like a suit case on the side of the stage. Peter is the last to go and he stops, closes the lid, and walks off. While they are all lined up and taking their trip, the back beat of the last song, plays on and ends when the last is gone.
Go to the 8 minute mark
No one said, " Hey who's playing the instruments !? " because it was obvious it was for effect and a looped beat.
I don't think of DJ's as "musicians."
This thread just keeps getting better and better.
After thinking all of this over, I would say that what is or isn't music comes down to the definition of "art" (rather than exactly how it is performed), because I think of music as a form of art that we consume mainly by listening. In my mind, the "art" distinction is so important because I would expect all to agree that not all things that we listen to are music -- some things we listen to lack an origin of creative autonomy and intent (which, to me, is what makes something art).
Yoko Ono singing whatever it is she is singing.