tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post5192350316966010998..comments2024-03-29T07:38:17.008-05:00Comments on The Music Salon: Varieties of PleasureBryan Townsendhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-57376753191212341962014-01-18T07:33:48.831-06:002014-01-18T07:33:48.831-06:00I think what caused me to write this post was noti...I think what caused me to write this post was noticing the contrast between how most people these days regard food and music. For example, ask someone what food they like and they might enthusiastically talk about Japanese food or this great little taco stand they just discovered or a nice bottle of wine they recently enjoyed. But ask people what music they like and they often just get vague and say, "oh, I like all kinds of music". I haven't actually done a survey, this is just anecdotal, but wouldn't it be interesting to collect some statistics? People are enthusiastic about things they care about. Right now, people seem to care more about food than music.Bryan Townsendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09482696991279345516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8827040061563065922.post-32026904941029122372014-01-17T12:41:26.710-06:002014-01-17T12:41:26.710-06:00Very good points in this post. None of these new &...Very good points in this post. None of these new "art forms" interest me. Food for me is simply something that gives nutrition and hopefully tastes good. But the growth of food as "art" can easily be observed in the growing number of cooking shows (including more serious competition shows). Drink, same thing, gives nutrition and hopefully tastes good (alcohol is of no interest to me, in fact I have never drunk alcohol). Fashion is just silly, as long as the clothes don't look bad and aren't worn I don't really care about clothes, it's a waste of money in many cases. Make-up, eh, no need to even bring it up (I'm a male after all) but in general I think make-up is simply fake. I wish everyone would stay true to the way they actually look (ofc, for movies and such it makes sense with make-up). <br /><br />Although I'm not particularly interested (or involved in) in art forms such as sculpture, painting, architecture, poetry, writing etc. I do feel a sense of respect to those thing. Ultimately it is music that is the greatest art form. Those two pieces you included show how music can have greater depth than all other art forms. A painting is great and all but it doesn't have the same sense of depth as music (at least the non-popular music type). Music is a time art after all. I think in a sense music is more similar to theatre or movies which too are time arts. A picture/painting can ofc add to music sometimes such as in the javanese gamelan piece (the piece was great, the picture added to the sense of mystery and exoticness). Rickardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08084578675339015204noreply@blogger.com