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Phylosophy of music creation
12 Dec 2006 18:55 PM
 

This article was created in 1998 as a first impression about music creation of "Baby Toys" project. After years the vision of the phylosophy did not change. So you can read the article that was created in 1998...

The Basic Direction Of Creativity

- Search of new musical ideas. Transfer of an own sensual condition through the musical forms.
- Harmony (musical term) only at the stage of arrangement, the composition completely depends only on the set of the nature-sincere factors.
- There is Element of Chance in creativity. The accident is what the nature gives to us. The final result is the merge of natural and sincere.
- The usage of any assistant means accelerating process of creativity: COMPUTER, sequencers, drum-machines, absence of live-perfomed parties, etc.
- The creativity is only for satisfaction of our own desires and aspirations.

Brief Philosophy

"Music is an art of intonation, art of reflection of the validity in sounding. Art activity in music is directed on a sound material... with the purpose of an embodiment the special figurative idea, associated with condition and processes of external world, internal experiences of the man..." (Musical encyclopaedia, 1990, page 359).

The 20th century has come - new tools, new styles. All this has expanded space of possible sound combinations (we'll call this increase of number Degrees of freedom), but also has designated borders of this space. The art of 20th century can be figuratively presented as a glass, which bottom was defined in painting by Malevich, and in music by John Cage. Now we slowly fill this glass.

What else increases the number of degrees of freedom? Modern man from concrete understanding of the validity has passed to more figurative and sensual perception. Effectively generated sound on analog sintezator of one note or combination black and yellow spots in painting can be sufficient for expressions of an idea and feelings at the moment of creation of a sound or picture. Thus it is necessary to remember, that presented minimalism is limited in itself . Let's take for example noise sounds. Classically it is considered, that noise sounds can not be used in music, because its have not precisely expressed pitch. The modern engineering of a sound recording has allowed to allocate noise music in a separate style. But at the same time noise has not the precisely expressed frequency characteristic and an increase of the same noise sound on a tone does not create any new idea. Analogically the rotated picture with black & yellow spots does not carry any new idea. But the people try to find possible methods to increase the number of degrees of freedom. Actually successfully... The modern technology enables us to receive new forms of influence: pshycodelic combination of visual and sound influences, videoclips, 3D sound, 3D design, at last, virtual Reality, the methods of sound space management . But all this will be supressed by limitation of human perception.

It is clear, that there are more people and electronic technics involved in filling the "Glass of Art", so in the following one hundred years we'll fill this glass completely. What will be further? The first group of people considers that in the future men will be simply "resing" & "replay" with the help of various combinations of musical tools,the second group considers that all musical ideas will be general axioms. I try to bring new idea of creation. What did the Computer bring to the man? Up to the 20th century music was a privilege only for musicians and the composers, only they could embody their own and "... special figurative idea...". The computer allowed everyone, who wants to tell something in language of sounds, to realize the ideas as pieces of music. As there was, the process of music creation is delivered with huge pleasure. Music allows to write down the feelings, just like photos, embodied events of life. It is possible to open own "Musical Photoalbum of Feelings", to listen to it and to plunge into the world of own feelings of any past moment. I would characterize it by the term "Creative Masturbation". "Creative Masturbation" does not depend on what occurs outside, because main its direction is to satisfy of our own desires. In this case the main task of the professional musician in expressing feelings, ideas for listeners is not actual, because he must express idea only for himself. So, an idea of art limitation as a whole, and such concepts as plagiarism, professionalism, popularity etc disappear. It is , perhaps, one of the best kind of egoism.

 
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