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Did anyone see The Office last night?
There was a great little ironic bit with Pam having her first art show that really, in the end and rightly so, resonated the point home about naturalistic rendering being made obsolete by photography.
Not to imply that drawing skills are not important. That's not true. One must learn to draw from life before they can ever become truly expressionistic with their art.
Anyway, this should get one thinking about the parallels in music. Since a machine can be made to play music with great nuance and expressiveness like the robot that plays Coltrane's iconic "Giant Steps" tenor sax arpeggios, then doesn't that now lend more creedence to a more improvised music as an art form as opposed to composed music that is thought-out beforehand?
Because, you see, interestingly enough, for all of its spontaneous-sounding, fiery flourishes, the structure for "Giant Steps" grew out of Coltrane's practicing of his personalized scales. Ah, how discipline can make you more free...even when flying with a head full of junk. Sacrifice of time, (and the due suffering hee hee) are just that important, fellow coaxers-forth of the sound. Sorry, if I lost you just there...along the way. Of course, he (Coltrane) wasn't the first in this department. That was really Charlie Parker blowing on "Cherokee."
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