--- Zachary Steiner <zsteiner@butler.edu> escribió: > None of that matters if the music isn't very good.
Heretofore, I've been able to bear with the esoteric mystical, numerology jazz, but it seems that it is reaching a new level of ridiculousness. My hope is that it does not overshadow the music.
Depending on how you tackle this stuff. When you're talking about certain skilled, experienced musicians (Zorn, Spruance, Kang, SCG,...), a concept behind the music really enhances the results, imho. Of course, what you get is the final listening experience, but I think working on a particular ground can help the music greatly and it adds some sort of "metamusical" edge to the whole thing that's really appealing. I'm a firm believer that the
aesthetics of a band should be an outgrowth of the bands music, not vice versa; form follows function applied to music, if you will.
Again, it's difficult to discern whether the music informs the aesthetics or viceversa in some specific cases, and it's clear that the SC3 Hermetic paraphernalia gives you some food for thought. Best, Efrén del Valle ______________________________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! - 6MB, más protección contra el spam ¡Gratis! http://correo.yahoo.es