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Old 02-23-2012, 04:40 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Rubato View Post
and this is where I see the problem, it seems jumping against the stream is given more importance. The old may be tired but it's certainly not exhausted, we should seek to expand and enrich not to create a split by casting out the old and celebrating a new model that has no resemblance to its forebears.
But most innovation does not cast out these trends but does exactly what you speak of. New trends do not necessarily herald the casting out the old, most of the time it is the new that society attempts to cast out and the old where these people hold their hearts. Innovation often expands on the unworn areas of conventionality, it is just that you (or so I assume) have been hearing innovations of innovations of innovations within music, so it seems to be an ejaculation of strangeness for the sake of itself when it is, in fact, an elaboration of the unexplored beauty within conventional techniques that the artist utilizes.
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