Week 2 Post 3 - Creativity and Intentions
My reaction is that I feel that this new learning, specifically about intentions, gives me words to describe thoughts I have had about music before, but couldn't quite find the words to describe. It makes me feel like I have already been thinking critically about the intention of music, specifically hip-hop, for a long time. This idea of seeing intentions in artists' work is something I think about a lot when listening to music. The idea of permanent beta is easily observable in some artists I like, such as Kanye West. Once he had to re-release an album because he had a better iteration of it, and this makes me feel that what I am learning is applicable to things I think about every day.
A question I have is how can you know when a product is in the iteration that should be released to the public if your creations are in permanent beta and can "always" get better? How would you be able to decide when enough is enough? Another question I have is about reduction. Some products are very clearly not reduced, such as books by Stephen King. His intentions are still observable but the reader has to endure so many words that could have been left out. Is reduction absolutely necessary or can one intention be to have an unreduced product?
Have you ever looked at early jazz music through the lens of this new learning? Are there any artists in that genre who believed work could always get better and evolve?
ReplyDeleteI never looked at Stephen King's work this way. I do get lost in his work and I get bored reading most of his books. I wonder how I would feel if there was a reduction in the word count.
I do not know that much about early jazz music so I cannot entirely answer your question, but I do know that the intention of creating jazz music was to make a kind of music to play so that whites could not dance to it, as a form of rebellion.
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