Everyone has their own tastes in music and in musical instruments. For me, the tone and fine quality of sound that comes out of a well-played acoustic instrument simply cannot be compared with the flat sounds that an electronic instrument or computer produces, no matter how much reverb you add.
I'm willing to be tolerant, and understand that some music made with electronic instruments in cool stuff. I can even accept that creating a "beat" with a computer is fun and is, in fact, part of a creative process.
But I´m really sorry, I STILL don´t much like the sound.
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| Flamenco guitarist Malena Hijo with his guitar. |
Learning how to play an instrument, whether electronic or acoustic, requires you to enter into a relationship with that instrument that is fundamentally different from what happens when you make music on a computer. In addition to the time and continued practice needed, it requires a form of love...and that time, practice and love are part of what gives them their depth. (The practice, for example, actually changes your physical make-up.)
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| Southern Indian bharatanatyam singer (Sasidaran), flutist and violinist. |
One of the things that attracts me to what is usually called "world music" is that the instruments are made out of living materials, and the playing of them produces a sound that has life and color. The same is true for what is often referred to as "classical music" (a term usually pointing to formal music of European or sometimes North American origin).
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| Juan Omar Medrano Cotito with four Afro-Peruvian percussion instruments. |
If the purpose of music is to move us by making sounds that speak to us as living beings, it makes sense to imagine that musical instruments made out of living materials will have more success than modulating electrical impulses.
OUR NEXT BLOG will be about the great screening we had of
Domino on Jan. 26.
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