I feel obligated to correct myself, at length. I've been reading some more in depth Music Theory books (from the fifties, they're full of references to 'qualities found in negro music'.) and I'm getting a vibe that my opinion that producing music without an instrument is not being a musician is innapropriate on a few levels. First of all, pretty much anything can be music.
You can fart on a sandwich and tonal shift it into a beautiful something or other. Further, composing music which is literally giving music a medium to translate to other people is musicianship in a pretty pure form, on paper or a mixer or a shittastic casio, whatever.
So I think my point is that while I have a bit of a pretentious appreciation for people who went balls to the wall and spent 10 years practicing an instrument and refining their bullshit to be able to play like no one else, that's a pretty fucking tiny portion of most musicians out there and doesn't give credence to the process of learning to identify how notes and melodies are supposed to tie together, which is universal to learning to create music. Maybe. Like I said I just started reading these books.
In saying this, I feel like following up with a good old "most electronic music feels like the atonal acid trip afterbirth of european Disco and R&B."
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