Article: Easily My Album Of The Year

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14 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

15 hours ago, shum3s said:

So Chris are you saying there is no such thing as “bad art” or “bad technique”? Everything is subjective? 

Absolutely 100%

 

The world is full of bad art. The world is full of people who can't carry a tune. 

 

If you listened to me play the guitar or sing it would immediately change your mind about no such thing as bad technique. It is not subjective

 

 

 

 

[bbosler]

34 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

no better than any other artist.

 

if nobody is any better or worse then all art is equal, all music is equal, everything is equal

 

you may not be able to quantify it, but saying everything equal is just a cop out

 

I get what you are saying.. "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" but some art is just crap no matter how you assess it, some "music" is just noise

 

It escapes me at the moment who it was but there was a 20th century composer who "composed" music by flipping a coin. Heads he went up in tone and tails he went down. There were others who did similar experiments. The resulting piece of "music" is random noise. It sucks. It is irritating and no sensible person would call it music. Same for a lot of so called art. 

 

[bbosler]

 

I disagree that just because you can't quantify something you can't rate it. 

 

If somebody decides to record a chainsaw while somebody else beats on a trash can and farts that is not music, it is not art, it is noise no matter how high you want to get on your intellectual horse. Just because you say over and over that we can't apply objective criteria to it does not mean it is music.