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There is another guy called Alvin Lucier and he creates 'magic' with music. Eg. how do you explain ping pang balls that hit drums all by itself in a rhythmical manner??. I couldn't believe it when I seen the tape. But here is what you do. You attach a 10 Hz signal to the drums. Now you cannot hear this signal but that doesn't mean that this signal doesn not move the surface skin of the drums. Now, what happens is that this 10Hz signal goes unperceptible to audience but makes drum skin move outward and inward. At the same time ping pong balls rest on the drum skin and at the same time they are attached to ceiling by a string. Now when the signal is sent these balls move. If skin is inward the drums accepts and absorbs the energy of the moving ping pong balls ( if they hit skin at the same time it is inward and getting slightly outward) and if the drum skin is outward these balls bounce even further creating rhytms and 'magically' moving but this is only a simple matter of physics. Alvin Lucier also created another piece which is example of process music and it is called " i am sitting in a room". Take a listen to the introduction and that will basically tell you all you need to know. The point he experimented with is that mic collects the resonance of the voice and this resonance is played back and back millions of times so the end result you hear is the natural resonance of the room and the effect is that it sounds heavenly space like. Reverbation and feedback happening dude! Beautiful!!! but what is the issue here? can anybody just do it anywhere? ..try and let me know1!! hahah, anyways, if you dont want to try then try to consider the Eigen tones. Eigen tones are important!!!. So if you have a room that has more than four wall and they are not symmetrical (...well haven't you looked at the concert halls..) then you will avoid these Eigen tones and that is good because you want to avoid frequency cancellations and have this musical reverbation happening. Also if you like this stuff check out Hilde Westerkamp's "Breathing Room" as well. I think Varney should create some huge toilet room so that some of the shredding cd's have really deap natural reverb in there. We want toilets.! We want toilets! We want toilets! We want toilets!We want toilets so that resonances occur in nodes. and plus toilet is the best room for practicing!!! havent you noticed that? that is why my playing sounds like crap....that is whats wrongo.
Anyways, going back to the issue of inspiration and stuff. Well, how often are you inspired? Every day? Every minute? then you are 'a very lucky man you know"...(I cant help but to quote THE MAN. sorry!. :-)..) So, if you are not inspired every day doenst mean you should not find ways of dealing with that stuff. I somewhere read that Shawn Lane writes millions of tunes in one period but than has couple of months just waiting to hit again. I don't think many people can afford to that especially if their contract is to constantly release cd's. It is about structuring the environment for creativity. That is why I respect Steve Morse and Carl Verheyen so much. They have all this talent, yet they are so busy. That is the real thing!. Anyways, how do you get creative? I think by restrictin your self. For example, if you constantly make neo stuff and demos you see a pattern happening when it comes to writing songs.So what you do? Become aware of the pattern!. Beware of limitations and know how to manipulate manipulations. that is why so many players who claim they are good actually suck because they are not even aware of their limitations. I mean it is so bad that they don't even know what they faults are and they actually think they are good. ..and there is a difference between believing you are good and a healthy confidence and proffesionalism.....quite different things.anyways the main thing is that you become aware of limitations. So what? Well if you want to make more songs then think about this. You have an event happening in some piece. Well start from the very beggining. Do you want that event to repeat again or not? If you do will repetition of it be altered? So that is the first step. The next step is what are your methods and materials. For example, I hear some shredding cd's and cd after cd it is same set of instruments even cd after cd. you dont have to have drums in every shredding cd. How about some gamelan or some harp, or trumpet or trombone..whatever just get different tone colors so you can have variety so that what you play has way bigger impact. you dont need distorted geetar tone on every song. How about some shredding on clean tele or strut sound like my man cigan bijeli does. That rules!! So when making a piece establish what timbres you want to work with. dont make every song the same. Looses impact. I like Toto. Every song is different and it rulezz! Some of Cacophony insturmental stuff and marty stuff is quite interesting. Marty rules too!!! Anyways, after materials and methods, you should consider the aspect of unity. Ie. you need to surprise people and capture theri interest. What captures your interest is things that surprise you and also things that please you..;.up to the point. If everything is pleasing all the time then it becomes unpleasing, cliche, boring and cheasy over time. There must be a connection and variety. and how do you that adis you moron? Well, look at gestures and look at the likeness of one event happening ove the other. Some of the oldy Shrapnel stuff is too predictable. Ie. you can exactly say what will happen next. I think new Shrapnel is way better than before no matter what certain individual here claims that there is a lack of players. I think quite contrary. Especially with introduction of BB and noninterference. Because not only you attract shredders but get people from other styles involved and curious into that so that all that becomes one thing eventually. that is very smart and cool!!. that is why i also think that this site should promote some of non neo people cause those people may become interested in neo stuff as well. again it is all one big huge picture you should think about. there are no boundaries in music,..but just closed minds..and childhood traumas...:-).hahah. Anyways, after unity issue you should look at form. What about form? Well you have to think about what is the rate of change of events happening? Is it slow or quick? Is every song a shredding song? Is every song a slow song? Gary Moore rules. he knows the balance.... Anyways bombardment of ideas can be very effective if used in right context and I favour that. How about you? Slow song requires more time...and as such..I dont think there is a point of making a slow song if the sound of the instruments suck. What a hell is a point, when you have mind especially paying attention to it especially if you are fascinated by sound. That is why gear and equimpent issues dont matter if you shred and constantly play fast. How about recording some high end big huge sound without blub blub...yep you read my mind. With this issue of rate of change comes also the issue of predictability and alterations. Ie. do you want every shredding song to be in AbA or serialize it (ie. series, retrogades, inversions,etc)..,use concept of chance (I Ching--book of changes) .., use constrained aleatoric parts...etc. (a la 'concerto for vc' by Witold Lutoslawksi performed by worlds best cellist Rostropovich....God save his soul!!:-( ..or ...) do you want to use environmetal forms ..eg.take notion of environmental sounds and manipulate them..etc. So you can get attention by concentratin on pauses (dont shred all the time) focusing frequencies (play with the sound, find what works) so I get to ask myself one question? Am i the only looser in this world to have different sound on every song?. I dont understand why geetar players and musicians in general stick to the same sound song after song. i thinkg that is very 'ignorant' and you basically shut of ears for NO REASON!!!!whatsoever. I think having different geetar tone on EVERY song is good because you pay attention to what songs calls for. that is why you cant stick to one sound. I use 10 of them. How the hell can you get pure music man bluesy twang with a mesa boogie. :-) ....funny!!!! or Marshall sound through a Peavy!!!....or smooth fusion sound of peavy through a Marshall?!....funny!!! so dont be a bunny and get yourself different amps. That is why i like Vanous cause the sound quality and transparency kicks ass yet the amp is very unique. ie. it is not a copy of anything else but an original thing. And that is what i look for in amps. have its own HEALTHY breathing frequencies.And the issue of contrast comes again. If you play over the same amp song after song then what you play slightly looses meaning. Ie.if you are going to play a bluesy solo with an impact then dont be a moron and have a ton of 'thin' overloaded gain mush up the solo. Instead play clean balls twang press the A/B switch and the solo will have way more impact. Same with blues jams. if you go and play over same clean sound song after song like those bluez nazis do (sorry blues nazis..:-))then solos loose impact. instead get some od happening BUT dont use it all the time..but only in selected spots. ie. hit the music in the groin..b a l l s. Hendrix, Blackmore, Srv do it the best!!! Anyways got to wrap this post up. What is the other things we look at adis you moron?..look at issue of layers. ...and if you like lawyers these days :-) ..music biz sucks these days....just bunch of fucken politicians and 'succesful carreer dudes'. what about losers? Losers are cool! Anyways, technology that we use today forces us to think in layers. We have to organize shredding in layers. Ie. think of a notion of visual arts. think of foreground vs. background. Is every song same chord patterns and types in the background, same tones in background, same instruments..etc. vs. is a overloaded gain geetar always in spotlight?? etc.. Eric Johnson rulezz!!..he knows the balance..Creating and ambience and space is the thing when you look at this issue. Same with texture..and the frequencies you use. Use different amps dude!!!! use e a r s. ..and financing opportunies, loans..etc.. this ambiance is very important so if you wnat to invest in a computer program then get "DECK" cause it allows you to create and manipulate awesome dynamic envelopes. Ambience and Time go hand in hand. Everything in world (avoid synthetics) changes over time and your ears are accustomed to this change. Hence, 'gesture defines duration'..which in my mind means that a certain kind of gesture has implicit and explicit notion of how long it should be..so the issue of subjectivity in chosing a right duration is also important. Now i really have to go....so will finish with issue of soundscape. is every shredding song in the same space?? is it a chaotic space? Is it a mysterious space? Where are you? sitting on toilet seat shredding?? cool, but you can take crap only certain number of times...:- ) there you go to get to this soundscape analyze behaviour. Ie. try to emulate behaviour of physics (ie. pendulum,clock, animal behaviour ..that cool thing on Vai's animal.hahah, walking, rain and gas molecules, volume formulas,,other sound ideas..rules of nature..you can defy them only if you are conscious of them) and then after you analyze all these things,...sit back become very unsconscious and make music 'out of nowhere'. ..now, jimmy d driver..wazzz up dude? What is your favourite Poison song?? i like unskinny bop.....
2. Yngwie Malmsteen "Rising Force"
3. Tony Macalpine "Evolution"
4. John Norum "Face the Truth"
5. Yngwie "Marching OUt"
6. Yngwie "Trilogy"
7. Norum "Live in Stockholm
8. Yngwie "Oddysey"
9. Tony Macalpine "Edge of Insanity"
10. Europe "Europe"
11. Jason Becker "Perpetual Burn"
12. Marty's "Introduction" 13. Vinnie Moore early stuff, "out of nowhere" is more fusioney....which brings me yes yes yes...
STeve I want you to listen to me carefully. REad this carefully. Vinnie Moore and Tony MacAlpine just recorded with Shane G. (ex-Yngwie drummer...who played kick ass on Budokan tour etc..+ kick ass Cosmosquad project with kickass Kollman) on a new project. I hear it is very fusioney and it has neoclasscal shred + taste + overal musicianship. Now, you heard this from me, not Amir, not mumbo jumbo not anybody else. So they haven't even released an album yet and it is still in process of mixing, and yes steve I am telling you this. Now, how Current, info can you get? please tell me. Use your Ph.D and your common sense. I tell you about the album before it is even released!!!!! so amir, h...hush beasts and let me post. The reason I post is because they kick ass and fans should know that they are continuing to kick butt. Now, there is another news Steve. If you haven't heard by this point then you must hear Jeff Kollman play . Dude , this is THE DUDE. HE is a MUSICIAN. LET EVERY SHREDDER KNOW THAT!!! This dude played bass on Michael Schenker tour and I think now he is playing with UFO.This dude plays beautiful geetar.; NOw steve, where did you hear this? you heard this on most upto date current website in the world that not only covers neo shred but all obscure music in the world. What more can you ask for.
anyways, steve you deserve spanking...big spanking...why? cause you only tribute neoclassical to Yngwie. Now, Yngwie ruleth and roameth the earth but what about Tony? You never mentioned tony. Now, here is what Tony said about neoclassical stuff...."It's almost like at clinics people want you to explain what the difference is. I feel they have to listen more to the music. There 's a vast difference, you but you can't convince somebody that the difference is reall there. They just have to hear it. Especially with that genre, that style, I'm trying hard now to do things that are probbly not of my character musically. Not because I'm tired of the comparisons. But it's time to move along. I feel that a lot of times I get these questions from kids who say, I am classically influenced. I immediately know they are going to say BAch. What about Beethoven or Mozart or Handel or John Williams? (so steve what about John Williams? have you heard his beatiful covers for movie music? the cd rules.) It 's because in this situation , especially in these times, it's very hard for these kids to come across a style. Mtv and radio are so accessible. They think that's the way you're supposed to play. You're not supposed to play like the people you see on MTV.It's just its hard for kids to become original"
Now, steve read Tony's passage for hundred times!!!!! Then you explain me, what is wrong with me posting about some electroacoustic music, or Irish music, Or cuban music, or Flamenco on the neo website? Don't you really think it would be very cool to let kids know about all styles so that they can get way further than what current mags and media and websites promote? Don't you think steve it is cool for some dude to read about a genius called Arne Eigenfeldt, so that they can get into Max, and learn how to add to their composition other tools that are outhere? What do you steve contribute to neo? tell me!!!
Anyways, in this same interview here is what Vinnie Moore talks about judging playing, especially your own....."You lose perspective. You can't judge your own playing; it's hard to step outside of yourself and listen from a totally new perspective." Now , you see what you do here? You can't make a music a commodity. Shortly I will post why I admire Uli when he talks that music is sacred....but there are great dangers if you don't know exactly what he means. Here is what Vinnie wrote about Bach...."When Bach was a concertmeister he had to write a song every week. Was he doing he really wanted?'"....well the answer is: Big fucking right yes!!! you see BAch was a very religious man. To him music was not passion. It was a duty and responsibility and way of life. passion crystalizes. Duty disciplines and cultivates. Here is something you should realize about yourself. If you cannot discipline yourself, you probably don't like yourself. To be disciplined means to practice and to have quiet spirit while practicing. If you see all the negativity around you and lose focus than there is something that disturbs you and you should resolve that. You can resolve that very easy and therefore there is only one way to discipline. You have to do things for sake of doing things. You must not think how will practice benefit you but you use practice as a form of renunciation. To get the idea of what I am talking about read Ecclesatians. The topic and issue is to big to be discussed over internet. Anyways, once you realize what is 'meaningless chasing after wind' then you will know what you have to do and how to do it. Another thing is learn the ten commandments of Krishnamurti and apply yourself. Also get familiar with the concept of Yayna, and concept of Karma Yoga. Then you will have all the discipline in the world...that is if you apply yourself to it.
Now, here is a crucial thing. remember when Yngwie said that he never practices.....he doesn't. You want to know why? Cause the meaning of practice is completely different than meaning of dedication. That is why all people who study Yngwie's playing and learn his licks will never get there. And bit by bit, you can trace this to Blackmore and Uli. Do you really think practice plays any importance in playing good? Nope. Well, think of Picasso. Think of Einstein. You see amir, they were not really 'model' citizens. As far as social behaviour goes these people were horrible. But then so what amir? So fucking what? To them creating what they had to create was their salvation. That is why I can't understand this. Today, couple of minutes ago I open a geetar mag and I read all these dude either
1. pretending to be cool, mature, good, ...etc you know the crap
2. or extremely , utterly boring attempts to be Satanistic, horrible, shocking..
what do they have in common.....SHALLOWNESS. And why is that Adis? Becuause they are trying to 'portray ' themselves to other people as something they are not. For example, you don't have to be overly...'satanist'..looking guy in order to be on evil side. face it, we are all bunch of incests when it comes to sinning. You don't have to pretend you are that extra. Just be yourself and you will realize your own misery. That is why don't pretend to be good either. Cause you are lying to yourself ...not me. Everybody knows the truth. just how much do you lie to yourself to justify your actions? than realization hits you....
anyways, lets talk about Uli now. Now, a while ago Uli mentioned in interview that music was sacred for him. That is why I went on his website and read some info about him. Go ahead and read for yourself. Now, you will see that Uli is into Greek arts as well. But then again ...lets see if we can link ancient approach to arts and this issue of sacred music. So to create this link you can read what Rousseau thought of music. Rousseau was heavily inclined toward Sparta and its way of living. But yesterday I read Schiller. That is why while memory is still fresh, read about Schiller.Schiller was writing in 1795 in the midst of the revolutionary turmoil that was to change Western culture forever and introduce in full force wht we have come to call modernity. His view, then , was much better thatn that of his predecessor Rousseau who was writing while Europe was still deeply enmeshed in the ancien regime. Schiller could thus not help acknowledge that the old ways were finished, that the modern had arrived, that reason had triumphed over superstition. The Aesthetic Letters represent Schiller's view of a man and civilization he creates. In these Letters, Schiller revealed his thoughts on the relationship of art and beauty to life, to politics, and to social revolution. His belief was that man and institutions gradually evolve toward a higher moral plane. Now, how does this have anything to do with neoclassical music? It has everything to do with it. Music is a symptom my friend of the culture. Music is mirror or reflection of the culture. Schiller believes that the social system reflects the character of its citizen. How do you know that society is heading toward barbarism? Well the symptoms are: violence, selfishness, destruction, and superstition, and at the same time cultivated class is pervaded by perversity, decay, egotism and moral shallowness. So what is the underlying cause behind all this? The underlying cause is man's imbalance between his animal and rational drives, a condition that certain developments in civilization itself exacerbate such as overspecialization.
Now, how can adis the menace apply this to the content of RFO posts? EAsy, just read posts by me, Amir, and Steve and see the Truth for yourself. So adis the menace, what is this overspecialization. Well, ask amir!!!! read his recent posts!!! Specialization means channeling all energy into mastering a particular subject within a profession or busines, or adapting a single skill or talent to one particular function. This is an affliction all to familiar to us in the 20th Century. It is unnatural as it is undesirable. Now, steve , you have a Ph.D. You can think so think!!! you see being a musicians today is very hard. This is not bitching. This is reallity. If you dont trust ME, then read a new article in geetar player by Carl VErheyen. Carl Man, you said it right. Carl spoke a lot of truth. I Love you Man!!! you are inspiration dude!!! anyways, you see musicians are treated like garbage. They are thought to be lazy bums, morons, egoistic basterds. nothing positive. but always working against the society. that is the general belief that lots of people hold. Not everybody is smart. But here let amir read this over and over again: BECAUSE, ALTOUGH SPECIALIZATION LEADS CIVILIZATION AS A WHOLE TO FULFILLMENT, IT DEHUMANIZES CITIZENS. THUS SCHILLER DIAGNOSES THE MALADY OF HIS AGE AS PSYCHIC IMBALANCE CAUSED BY OVERSPECIALIZATION. Therefore, musicians should go away from music and live the life.
What does this have to do with Uli? Well, In ancient Athens, for instance, the well rounded individual was expected to be able to play a musical instrument, compose an ode, deliver an oration, serve as statesman, manage his estate, defend his country, compete in sports and so on. This ancient ideal has been replaced by a man who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. There are doctors, laywers, professors, etc..but few human beings. So steve, how do I contribute to society? Answer: By being sellfish. For the sake of civilization, we must promote inner harmony. no reason helps here. that is why your reasoning does not work steve. Because altough its task is to concieve and establish law, it has NO power to enforce it. After establishing that we can rely neither on the state nor on reason to facilitate th improvement of man, Schiller finally prescribes the right medicine in the 9th Letter. "This instrument is Fine Art".
HOW DOES THIS PROCESS WORK? It involves man's mimetic faculty. Not only do men imitate one another in learning how to speak and how to express their feelings, they imitate even more wht they see on stage, a canvas, the printed page, or in recent times televison. ART, GOOD OR BAD, SHAPES MAN'S VALUE SYSTEM. ART IS EXPRESSION OF VALUES. LIFE IMITATES ARTS, NOT OTHER WAY AROUND. Not only does man learn by imitating, he transforms himself into what he imitates. To improve the citizen, 'banish from their pleasure caprice, frivility, and coarseness, nd imperceptibly you will banish these form their actions and , eventually, form their inclinations too'. Now, if man imitates art, the artists of the world are mankind's true shapers. This is an awesome responsibility, and Schiller has some advice to give. and Amir and STeve read this 1000 times: THE ARTIST MUST NOT CATER TO PUBLIC WANTS. HIS TASK IS NOT TO ENTERTAIN BUT TO ELEVATE MAN, TO FREE HIM FROM HIS ANIMAL NATURE. HE MUST GIVE THE CITIZEN ART TO IMITATE THAT WILL ENNOBLE HIS CHARACTER. "work for your contemporaries, but create what they need, not praise"
ART FUNCTIONS AS THE INSTRUMENT OF PROGRESS BECAUSE IT SHAPES CHARACTER. Thus, according to Schiller's theory of social evolution, by means of art man ascends form the natural state to the moral state. Now, Schiller also identifies the deterministic and conflictting forces operating within and on the psyche with the object of how they can be neutralized through play and beauty. Psyche is a subject to compulsion from 2 sources: Sense drive (stofftrieb,) and these are the impulses arising from animal nature. This sense drive designates those things we share with other animals, and this side of our psyche is passive in nature; that is , it requires outside stimulation to be brought into action. The sense derive includes sense perception, the emotions,and such basics as feeding, fighting and procreations. talk about today's musicians who play clubs!!!! beer, beer, more beer!! You see their emotions are brought into play by wants. That is why read that Bhagavad Gita advice : 'have few desires'. the sense drive is an animal. It demands constant activity. It thrives on experience. Look at your fellow musicians friends. Can you measure the extent of their sense drives? THE OBJECT OF THIS DRIVE, IN SHORT IS 'LIFE'. It has no goal beyond immediate experience. You see getting a ph.d. in Life is actually bad. ....but 'bad'...only for a rationalist. This drive is grounded in something beyond our control which Schiller identifies as Time, Chance, And Changing Circumstance. It follows that purely sensate man has no power to determine the course of his life. Instead, he is the object of capricious forces which sweep him back and forth like sand along the beach. When this drive functions exclusively, we have the highest degree of limitation. Can you recognize such behaviour on RFO? .....ignorance...makes you blind. Anyways, we have another drive called Form-drive (Formtrieb) which arises from the rational faculty. It designates the operations of the rational facility. It is the originator of those things which have existence only in human mind and which could not exist without it. This side of our psyche is inherently active and is constantly ordering and creating. It devises standards for judgments and methods for procedure. It creates laws and principles which it applies to everything we experience and feel and organizes it into a unity that has a meaning for us. This is the basis of art. you see the basis of art is the organization of principles of this self generated world. These principles have meaning to us. Now , do you think music is sacred? have you read the Book of Job? have you read the danger of self-justification? are you going to justify your action and defy God? It seems to me that art and God are in total contradiction. Why? Cause you have no power to do anything. your body does not belong to you. If your body does not belong to you, then how can you assume that some event as music belongs to you? You see, if you declare that music is sacred, then you declare that you are a religious person. If you are not a religious person than you don't have to declare that music is sacred. But once you claim that you are religious then you belong to God. Your body does not belong to you. Your thoughts do not belong to you. If you have bad thoughts then you get punished for them, cause remember the saying 'eyes that do not perversely see, ears that do not perversely hear...' So.....we come to this issue. How can you claim that you make sacred music if nothing belongs to you? If you read religious texts than you will realize that God has no association whatsoever. No image can conceive him. Our imagination is limited to 10 ...above and below, after, before, so on...and remember that saying 'beware of the physical world'....Now, how can you create music and at the same time avoid the trap of crystalization? Well adis the menace what is crystalization? Crystalization is disguised as beauty. I will skip few letters from Schiller and mention this idea of play and beauty. 'Play works its magic by satisfying simultaneously both the demands of the flesh and those of spirit'. Now, we know that spirit wars against the flesh and flesh against the spirit. Eastern philosophy advice the issue of balance. Now, this is where all these issues start contradicting. In western thought, an artists for eg paints a picture purely for the pleasure involved. Our delight in play appears to derive precisely from its nonutilitarian character. this play drive can be thought as the force that permeates the psyche and binds it toghether. this side of our psyche is both active and passive at once, it produces and receives at the same time. For man, it is ony play that makes man whole and unfolds both sides of nature at once'. Men only plays when he is in the fullest sense of the word a human being, and he is only a human being when he plays. If we can imagine a purely playful man, it is one who transcends mind and body, and is truly free'. Now, in his 15th letter play and beauty are compounded of the same elements: if the object of sense drive is life, and that of fomr drive form, than the object of the play drive is 'living form', that is 'what in the widest sense of the term we call beauty'. Like form, beauty is compounded of 2 elements. It is form because we think it. It is life because we feel it. Like play, it gives us something to enjoy passively and to imitate actively. NOW IF PLAY AND BEAUTY ARE ALIKE, THAT MEANS TAHT BOTH HAE THE SAME SYNTHESIZING EFFECT ON THE PSYCHE. Since beauty is the product of artistic play, we understand deeper meaning of Schiller's claim in the 9th letter that the key to gates of progress is fine art. In the 18th letter, Schiller points out that if beauty brings the senses nearer to reason and rason nearer to sense, it follows 'that ther must be a state midway bwtween matter and form, passivity and activity, and that it is into this middle state that beauty transport us'. He calls this middle condition the Aesthetic state. His thesis is that Real Human progress is toward the aesthetic state. he says that 'aesthetic state is the natural object of the drive to play'. he observes that we are transported into this ideal condition through the enjoyment and through the creation of various kinds of 'aesthetic semblance' (asthetischer schein) Now, here we have two kinds of semblance. False semblance is always deceptive. Hello me , this is me again? ...It misleads judgment because it pretends to mirror reality. Humanoids practice false semblance, for instance, when they pretend to be something they are not....hello me..this is me again. ...or pretend to be Jimi,...or Blackmore...you know the story. Now, Artistic Semblance applies only to art and it is what distinguishes art from reality. ART AS AESTHETIC SEMBLANCE IS MAN MADE AND INDPEPENDENT OF REALITY. Since aesthetic semblance pretends to be nothing other than it is, there is no danger of confusing it with truth and reality. " to attach value to semblance, can never be prejudicial to truth, because one is never in danger of substituting it for truth, whic is after all the only way in which truth can ever be impaired". For Schiller, a work of art is Pure Illusion. Now, isn't Satan master hypnotist and illusionist as well? 'like a rainbow or a sunset it is devoid of substance and has no separate reality apart from its appearance. herein lies its power. ' Since artistic semblance cannot be used for anything, the mind is liberated form practical considerations, and it slips out of the everyday world into the realm of sheer appearance which is the aesthetic state. Semblance, therefore in schiller's opinion is the instrument which transports us from reality into aesthetic freedom. Whenever we do more than necessity dictates, we transcend necessity, which is the definition of aesthetic freedom. according to schiller, 'aesthetic semblance has always played the leading role in making rise from barbarism'.Man ornaments his possessions fo rthe same reason that he plays. So you think music is sacred? So you ornament music with various devices? So you defy good but claiming music as your possession? hmmm.....where is Satan roaming around here...... The key issue here is beauty. Beauty can represent Divine and can at same time lead to Sin. You see art as a form will constantly change. The key issue here is ATTITUDE. The key issue here is the recognition that humility and great deal of self criticm might keep you on the right track. The key issue here is that by keepin music sacred, you use it a prayer and not as association with God, nor using attributes cuase that is the greatest sins of all. I read somewhere that God will forgive sins if repentance is accepted but will never forgive any association nor assigning of attributes....That is WHY it is better to keep music strictly business, because otherwise you enter deep waters that will swallow you....F a s t. Anyways, this is just a brain teaser. oh well. got to go to class now. Hey amir, bad news dude. ...jam at pic will be closed down 2 weeks from now....sad...after 6 years of jaming......oh well, something new will happen.
1. Goran Edman -the singer with the most amazing clean singing ever....no comparison!! period!!!
2. Marcel Jacob....along Jaco...on of the coolest bass players on earth!!!!!Anybody seen that Norum bootleg where Marcel plays the paganini caprice on bass??? Now check this out...imagine Yngwie, Norum, Jens and Marcel on a project together!!!!!!! anyways, what I like about Marcel is that he is soooo original and clean. His timing and precision is great and I never heard him wank. I think him and Jens have some sort of telepathy or something....anyways, beside that Norum bootleg thang, I like that video with Marcel, I think it is Norum's "Love is Meant to Last Forever"......heavenly, Norum with Marcel and Goran.....beautiful....anyways, lets now speak of singers...I think when it comes to rock style I love Goran's voice, and yes....yes...yes..G.Hughes and David C. complete the list.......of best singers in the world. Out of new guys what do you think of John West? I think his voice is happening totally, and Kollman knows how to interpret the style and add some extra cool chords with lots of groove and juice. Now...for me...just as my taste goes.....for me....the best ONE and nobody else......HENDRIX-the best voice ever!!!!! So natural, so beautiful, so passionate...so honest..full of love and intelligence with the best messages in music. Art to fullest extent.best playing, best singing, best messages........why ? cause it is 100 % honest and comes straight out of experience of life. No bullshit. No poser fake learned knowledge. No complex ego game. Pure human being with intelligence and love right in the balance which gives that reflection of total humility but pure humility. not that fake one, as many musicians these days fake humility to get positive judgement,not realizing they are doing quite opposite. Humility is not about respect, nor reputation. that is for poser musicians who for example sit here and all they do is look at the negative things I see, ignoring all positive things. everybody has negative things, and the people who only project to you positive things, are lying to you right in the face. humility is not about manners. it is about honesty. so as in sufi message...lose all respect and lose all reputation. I ain't nowhere near that sufi level, but seeing many musicians play, I can tell you the best musicians are ones who appear as assholes, (not word "appear"), who are honest, give it to you right in the face, and altough they appear not so nice, they are human beings full of love for music and sharing it so that love gets trasmitted. all other people are critics who think they are good judges, but fail to realize first principle of judgment....if you don't judge yourself, you can't know what the right judgment is, so how can you judge somebody else? ...anyways, the whole point is that it is all about honesty. You should do whatever you feel like doing. I like Hendrix because he felt and did what he had in his head. Same with Norum,and same with Marcel. that is why styles don't matter. styles come and go. Yngwie played what he felt like playing so you get his RFO thing happening. that is why other people should play whatever is on their head and play with honest motivation, nor for sake of impressing somebody, nor showing off, just because they feel like 'talking' with their music their own way. Some other guy told me the other day..'adis, you idiot, why do you project negative stuff? you are ruining your reputation?......."...can you believe this crap? Good reputation is your number one enemy cause it makes you dependent on judgment of other people and then you become a machine or slave. weak people need good reputation. they can't handle straight to the face truth. so they use manners so they can feel good. but think then...if you feel good...then why play music? you have nothing to express then. when you are positive and happy, you become numb to reality and just do some fluffy poser so called elevator music 'oh I am an artist' crap. I like King'X....you know why? cause it is meat, chunk, and balls, and it is REAL!!!! As far as my own taste in music goes...the only coolest singers for the straight out of soul style....Doug P. ..Hendrix....you get the idea.