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This leaves the question of whether it's necessary to be painfully perfectionistic over the details of production viz creation in music. In this forum alot of people seem to sweat a few db's here and a few mhz there. Is this really necessary? When I read SOS and other magazines, it seems most of the professional engineers laugh at that.
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That's why they are "engineers" and not writers, or musicians, or artists.
Basically, what you just said means that you, and some folks here, do not trust the implications of a free form exercise, regardless of where it is and comes from.
So "Naked Lunch" was defined by each word like Salinger? Or Miles Davis was writing every note?
The majority of the works in the mid 20th century were so free form for a reason ... and they helped usher a long line of theater, film, music, art that has stood the test of time, and place, and yet ... it is not trusted and we think that the intuitive instinct is wrong and has to be thought out!
That is just plain wrong, regardless of whatever discipline you are talking about.
It's a shame you folks never got to see things like "The Living Theater", or pure free form music and stuff that would trip your ears and mouths. Maybe I should tape Art Bears and Slapp Happy to your ears.
Listen to Eno, and most of the free form folks and experimenting people out there. It's less about the so-called and ego idea of "perfection", than it is about simply doing it, and as time goes by, your expression gets better and cleaner.
Just admit it ... you guys are scared poop'less of total free form and then some? So you really think that Burroughs gave a damn about how one word fell on his page? You obviously have not been reading much I should say, and while I do not dislike Salinger, to me he is a secondary writer, and not a main line creative artist.
That's not to say that trying to be "perfect" with the words is not important, but telling that to Aldous Huxley, he will probably laugh so hard and cry right after it. What's the point of "The Doors of Perception", and "Heaven and Hell", or anything else? Are you guys stuck in Narcissus and Goldmund? You have any idea what the "Magic Theater" is?