Do you play an Instrument
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- KVRer
- 23 posts since 31 May, 2002 from Lansing,MI
This topic came up at work the other day, some one said that people who use computers to make music are not musicians, I say it's not true.....
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- KVRAF
- 9220 posts since 23 Jul, 2002 from Pequot Lakes, MN
I started out playing drums 40 years ago. I've played guitar for 20 years, keyboards (but not well 
) for about 20 years and bagpipes (my secret's out 
) off and on for about 10...
ew
) for about 20 years and bagpipes (my secret's out ) off and on for about 10...ew
A spectral heretic...
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- KVRAF
- 6596 posts since 21 Jun, 2004 from Secret Underground Hideout
i haven't met an instrument i can't play. well, ok...i wasn't able to play the sideways flute. just give me another chance!
"Most people who experiment with drugs are not lying in the streets, suffocating on their own vomit. If you want to see some of that, go to the Pub on Saturday night at closing time." ozwest
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- KVRian
- 864 posts since 9 Jul, 2001 from Chester County PA, USA
I started out 35 years ago formally/classically trained on piano; I've been playing guitar and bass about 27 years, and have played professionally both live and in the studio on keys, guitar, bass, Chapman Stick and vocals. Sooo, I guess I consider myself a musician. 
And...yep: I most definitely use computers to make music. 
And...yep: I most definitely use computers to make music. -
- KVRAF
- 4822 posts since 14 Mar, 2002 from Somewhere else, on principle
I say, who gives a f**k what "someone" says anyway.Juan Sanchez wrote:This topic came up at work the other day, some one said that people who use computers to make music are not musicians, I say it's not true.....
Let them think what they want.
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
John Vulich wrote:I say, who gives a f**k what "someone" says anyway.Juan Sanchez wrote:This topic came up at work the other day, some one said that people who use computers to make music are not musicians, I say it's not true.....
Let them think what they want.
don't get many second dates do yah John....
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRAF
- 8089 posts since 9 Jan, 2003 from Saint Louis MO
I played the violin regularly for 6-7 years in school, keyboards in the high school jazz band for a couple of years, picked up all kinds of random things for a while and noodled on them (harp, guitar, bamboo flute, psaltery, whatever), played synth via keyboard of necessity before I had anything to sequence with, currently mostly play hand percussion.
I am much more a composer than performer now, but that doesn't make me not a musician.
I am much more a composer than performer now, but that doesn't make me not a musician.
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- KVRian
- 901 posts since 1 Dec, 2003
There are people who USE their computers to make music, and there are people who LET their computers make music.Juan Sanchez wrote:This topic came up at work the other day, some one said that people who use computers to make music are not musicians, I say it's not true.....
I consider the ones that USE them to be musicians...playing the parts, or step entering, which is really a new form of scoring.
As for the ones that rely on pre-recorded loops and the manipulation of them by pressing a button or slamming a slider, I'd consider them to be engineers...not musicians. No offence to anyone, just my thoughts.
For me, I've played the keys for 33 years now. To my ears, I'm worse than I ever was!
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- KVRAF
- 6596 posts since 21 Jun, 2004 from Secret Underground Hideout
and another anti-loop thread is born
<----gets popcorn
<----gets popcorn
"Most people who experiment with drugs are not lying in the streets, suffocating on their own vomit. If you want to see some of that, go to the Pub on Saturday night at closing time." ozwest
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- KVRAF
- 12235 posts since 18 Aug, 2003
Happy New Year!androidlove wrote:and another anti-loop thread is born
Actually, I was thinking more that the engineers are going to be the most pissed off, what with getting lumped in with the loop-users like that.
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- KVRAF
- 4822 posts since 14 Mar, 2002 from Somewhere else, on principle
I actually do quite well with women, thank you very much. Not sure what the relevance is though.Hink wrote:don't get many second dates do yah John....John Vulich wrote:I say, who gives a f**k what "someone" says anyway.
Let them think what they want.
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- KVRAF
- 1743 posts since 3 Dec, 2004
agreed, keep the engineers & the paint-by-numbers kids seperated pleaseshamann wrote:Happy New Year!androidlove wrote:and another anti-loop thread is born
Actually, I was thinking more that the engineers are going to be the most pissed off, what with getting lumped in with the loop-users like that.
-an engineer who plays several instruments (poorly)
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- KVRAF
- 3158 posts since 2 Jul, 2005 from Stuck in the closet
There're two types of musicians. There are performers and there are composers. Some composers double as performers and some performers double as composers. Being strictly a composer doesn't make a person any less of a musician, it just means they choose to focus their talents on writing music as opposed to playing it.
Mizutaphile.
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- KVRAF
- 4822 posts since 14 Mar, 2002 from Somewhere else, on principle
Thank you.Ildon wrote:There're two types of musicians. There are performers and there are composers. Some composers double as performers and some performers double as composers. Being strictly doesn't make a person any less of a musician, it just means they choose to focus their talents on writing music as opposed to playing it.