On 02/03/2011 07:40 PM, nemesis wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>>> Mozart symphonies to trance music made with computers;
>>
>> I happen to *like* trance. :-P
>>
>> (Which is more than I can say about Mozart symphonies... mostly because
>> I don't remember any of them.)
>
> It's not about liking or disliking, it's about recognizing a high watermark for
> the art when you are facing it.

Oh, I don't think anybody is arguing with the self-evident fact that 
there's almost nothing technically sophisticated about trance, and that 
the work of Mozart has a great degree of technical sophistication to it.

That doesn't mean I have to actually *like* it. And think about it - 
what kind of music is more profitable to produce? Music that's 
technically impressive, or music that people will actually pay money for?

That said, I really hope the general populous start getting bored with 
boy bands and girl bands really soon now...

>> I will grant you though that we are currently flooded with cheap
>> mass-produced music that isn't very good. I guess we have simple
>> economics to blame, rather than computers. I suspect people are still
>> out there making good music; it's just harder to find now.
>
> Don't you find that a bit disconcerting in the Information Age?

I figured I was just getting old or something.

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