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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
I think that the concept of 'personal approach to things' too often gets lumped with the peerlessness of swiping something off and replacing it with something that genuinely has no previous detectable history, at least when it comes to music. Maybe it's because I'm so into the whole 'cause and effect' business side of things, but I rarely hear something that is purely alien to everything else that exists around it. I'm split on this.
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But does something have to be purely alien to be original? I would think that originally is closer to a witty twist on convention but, as such, needs a convention to operate. This is why, I think, one either has to be largely ignorant of the method of the convention in order to almost accidently introduce a new idea or else needs to understand the method of convention so well as to transcend it. But in either case, nothing is created from nothing as much as is the re-purposing of either elements within the art or elements outside the art made useful within it.