So i've been thinking about a certain point about the amateur music scene (really my own name, probably doesn't exist, but i'm referring to the many people on myspace or even on this website that make their homegrown music and post it online).
So my friend is one of these people. He makes really great music, sometimes a bit avant-garde or different but its still great. he's relly prolific and sometimes can just roll out songs, whether they may be rock or dance songs.
but it seems to me that he's really being selfish about his music. it seems he only really makes it for himself. i tell him about taking it to someone (which he sorta has done, but not really) or like really try to make a name for himself on the internet or at school or whatever. he says he's just 'refining' his abilities and that when he's out of school (he's 16/17 at the moment) he's going to try and really go somewhere with it.
ok so now i had this thought. these days it's apparently so easy to get your music online and get noticed if your music is good enough. but i thought about that. because it's so easy, one finds so many people doing it and it just gets so full of people that think they make awesome music. this posting music thing online is great but can really get used and abused and may just become a big pit where one can't find anything REALLY of substance.
perhaps that's why he doesn't want to do the whole internet thing, because there's so many and how can one possibly get noticed out of this huge pit where the 'amateur music scene' lives.
what are your guys thoughts on this?
(PS me or him are neither against this ineternet music thing as a concept but it's just what seems to be happening to it)
so im reading this book..its called "this is your brain on music" by daniel levitin (or sumin like that)
so he explain many things about how we perceive things and this one really gets me..that nothing as we perceive it in the world is actually like that...colour is the result of light being reflected and our brains adding info and sorting info etc...and even anything we perceive our brains fill in information..so we really under some wild illusion...
he said something like our brains have the ability to filter our information (example sound) and we can focus on certain things...now imagine perceiving all sounds that we hear at any point in time at the same level...so we would hear a bird chirping ourside at the same level as someone screaming at us...we would hear everything perfectly...that would be intense...
in other reading the author put forward a theory that we capable of perceiving everything in the world at any time we essentially have a "mind at large" where we can see everything and hear everything...our minds filter out information as it would be irrelevent and useless...
Progressive rock...!
I may be wrong but it seems to me progressive rock/instrumental rock is quite a underground genre.
Many people listen to it it seems but does it really sell like a more comercial genre does?
i personally think progressive rock should receive more recognition as it seems like a genre full of musical talent and virtuosity...
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