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Is Creativity a farce? |
This is a serious question. Have you ever thought about the process of "picking" one of those 4 digit bicycle locks? You would start with 1-1-1-1 then 1-1-1-2 then 1-1-1-3 etc...until you hit the right combinations and open the lock. Well hypothetically couldn't we do the same for music? What if we started a computer program that generated a sequence of tones a flat-a flat-a flat-a flat THEN a flat-a flat-a flat-b flat THEN a flat-a flat-a flat-c flat etc.... Using this approach wouldn't we inevitably generate every composition of music possible? If this is the case then is Creativity real? or is it merely a random act of "discovery"? this is a decent theory, but at what point do you wrap up your formula. you started with a four 'beat' theory. their are 22 notes in the common musical scale. (i think) if you make this loop very large to try to create a song with a reasonably complex pattern, your math is going to get very large very quick. also...you are not even considering the different styles of notes and different times of musical note placement and rests etc. it would take a very large, powerful computer, a very long time to compute this very complex math problem. i dont think it is a farce necessarily, but i think that some of the perception of what is and is not creative is a farce in and of itself. lets just say it could boarder both Music is all down to creativity...some things just can't be explained through logic...Yes, I suppose you have a point, but that kind of music would suck. This sounds like that idiot who told me that you could be a world famous rapper if you just tore up pieces of paper, wrote down some ghetto words that rhymed, picked them out at random and put them together to get a platinum record. Can we really insult people's intelligence like that? They border each other...creativity is just a better way of doing it is all. Not really. What you are describing sounds more like practicing to improve musical mechanics, such as repeating scales or chord sequences. There are other aspects of music that require creativity such as when to increase or slow down the tempo; whether increase (crescendo) or decrease (diminuendo) the volume of the music so that it is not predictable. Then there are other things such as musical quotation where in a motiff, you sneak in references from already composed music (Mahler used to embed musical references in his symphonies to indicate a particular period of time he was reflecting on in his music); Because of myriad possibilities, the room for creativity in music is endless. You make an excellent point, creativity isn't exactly random... but it is real. Creativity, is comming from a persons head but, what you're talking about is, just generating something... there's nothing random about it... it's all completely planned. "Is Creativity a farce?" Of course it is. No one is creative. HELLO!!!! TFTP i dont think that creativity is a total farce. i use to wonder a little about this concept myself because if you listen to a variety of music you will discover that everything seems very familiar i figure that after you have manipulated every possible variation you after eventually start over again. |
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