What is the Point of Your Music?

[androidlove]

you people simply aren't getting it, for you don't have the magic of the music in you. if you didn't vote the way i did, you are clearly inferior and but a mere hack!

[Hewitt Huntwork]

Personally, I dont give a f**k about 'popular' music.

And I completely fail to see how the music I get is a function of how I respond to a random internet poll about why I create my own music. DO please explain the correlation...

Is this an admission that you "can't let a serious discussion about art or creativity progress without trying to belittle it"? Because I didn't mention any names.

I like you (and I know you don't care about that) and I think you are a great contributor to KVR. If you were truly interested in what I had to say I doubt you would begin your response the way you did. I suspect, rightly or wrongly, that you aren't really interested in my opinion about how someone (I didn't say you) being unwilling to participate constructively in a conversation about creativity relates to mediocrity in artistic culture (which I admit I only addressed as the subset of "popular music").

I suspect that you imagined that I was talking about you and now want to give me and my opinions a patented whyterabbit dismantling. No, thank you. I mean, it says "beware the quoth" right next to your name!

[whyterabbyt]

Personally, I dont give a f**k about 'popular' music.

And I completely fail to see how the music I get is a function of how I respond to a random internet poll about why I create my own music. DO please explain the correlation...

Is this an admission that you "can't let a serious discussion about art or creativity progress without trying to belittle it"? Because I didn't mention any names.

I like you (and I know you don't care about that) and I think you are a great contributor to KVR. If you were truly interested in what I had to say I doubt you would begin your response the way you did. I suspect, rightly or wrongly, that you aren't really interested in my opinion about how someone (I didn't say you) being unwilling to participate constructively in a conversation about creativity relates to mediocrity in artistic culture (which I admit I only addressed as the subset of "popular music").

I suspect that you imagined that I was talking about you and now want to give me and my opinions a patented whyterabbit dismantling. No, thank you. I mean, it says "beware the quoth" right next to your name!

nah, it wasnt take personally, even if I am guilty of being slightly flippant in response to the thread.

im just kinda confused as to the perceived relationship between some random collection of people's rationales for their much, and how that might be related to the output of the most populist aspect of the industry...

[shamann]

I'm puzzled by the poll, in that it suggests both that making music must be guided by an underlying reason, and that music is specifically a means to communicate that underlying reason. My experience with music would suggest neither is essential to the making of music.

[lavoll]

the point of my music is to make me money and/or get laid

[shamann]

the point of my music is to make me money and/or get laid

Has that worked out so far?

[debra1rlo]

it's taking a mental dump

Oh see, now that was perfect. Now I love you and want to have your babies.

just drop them off by the pool

[TristezaOrange]

I don't see an option that applies to my motivation.

Pussy, drugs, and emotional validation from my dad.

[Hink]

what's the point of life? The question is impossible to answer, I could go into what I get from music but I'm not sure that's the point of it. If I had to I guess I could narrow it down to thinking music is part of my individualality, but that doesn't mean that's the point either

[androidlove]

wow, only 16% of us are preaching it. i feel unique

[dan_s]

to annoy my gf.

[DrApostropheX]

Education, mostly. And the elevation of the mundane.

[pwal]

creation of stuff

[yemski]

Keeps me off the streets.

Who knows what could happen there?

I may fall in with a bunch of cockernee street urchins,artfully conning and robbing my social superiors around town.

Far better that I stay indoors messing around with synths and stuff.

[loose snare]

what's the point of life? The question is impossible to answer.....

No it's not.

The universe is a big mysteries thing, although with nothing else to compare it to all you can really say is that the universe is.

Life is defined by awareness - all living things from germs to trees to humans to horses are aware in their own way and of their own corner of the universe. All living things are naturally a part of the universe as a whole, therefore the point/ meaning of life is clearly the universe providing itself with the means to become aware of itself.

We are simply an expression of the universe probing the mysteries of itself, imagining itself to itself by itself. Just like all the cells in your body contribute to you being able to feel that you exist. Our notion of being individuals is just the way in which we humans have molded our particular portion of awareness - other creatures focus less on individuality and more on other things. Humans feeling very individual like ask the question 'why am I here, what's it all about?' whereas other creatures with less sense of individuality/ separateness may feel the answer more intuitively and so never even conceive of asking the question in the first place.

The reason I focus on this is that in my opinion all worthwhile music contributes to the collective understanding of the universe as a whole, no matter what genre. Good music observes and reflects back (a tiny part of) the universe in some specialized, unique way. That is what I try and do. It is not accurate (because accuracy is more of a concept of science) but it is honest and truthful. Your can just tell without thinking the music that does this and the music which does not, it is (put very simply) the difference between a tune that rocks and one that sucks.