Dervish_D
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Posted: Sep. 07 2001, 02:21 |
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I think we should not discuss about styles that changed during Mike's career. A certain style is just ones own personal way to describe what you think during the process of composing. It just depends on what your subjective likes or dislikes are and in which time you live in. Consider if Bach have had the opportunity to use synthesizers, wouldn't he at least try it them out? More over, Mike has said, he hates the sound of saxophons but you find one in "Music from the Balcony". Why? When he wrote "Amarok", he claimed to disdain computers and synths at all. So what? Changes in your points of view take places everyday. And this is not a sign of inconsitency, just a sign of a constant learning and exploring process. This is something valueable because nowadays lots of people tend to have their strict opinions and views.
This is one aspect. The other I want to refer, is about his recent music:
Either, don't I believe in a loss of his talent or something. However, I think that his recent methods of producing music are too unimaginative or better to say, can be improved (sorry). In the 70s there was something in him that wanted to be relieved. This made him compose music that was so intensively thought through and complex; every detail had to be right. Nowadays this changed a bit because in formerly composing was not just waiting for inspiration, drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes and finally playing just something. No, you had to WRITE something down (refer Amarok inlay), you had to think about / with the instruments you want to use because noone other (e.g. the computer) was able to play them except from you and, what I consider extremely important, you HAD TO DISCUSS with someone about what you composed and you had to be open-minded for other's points of view.
This is something I think Mike has hidden behind his technical perfection and the new technology he planted around him. However, every word remains just speculation. Perhaps I am completely wrong. Nevertheless, I try to find my own answers and ways in thinking about music. I read an article about Vangelis's recent "Mythodea"-event in Greece and he stated, he would try to be as objective as he can be with his music and thus he composes from completely nothing, no images, no feelings. I believe that music still remains something subjective. Objectivity would limit music to pure description and that is just not the point why I like music.
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