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DJing is not a form of music creation, it's a form of music playing. If you mean free-form mixing and music creation based on samples and synth some DJs do on
by ghusto 2y ago
DJing is not a form of music creation, it's a form of music playing.
If you mean free-form mixing and music creation based on samples and synth some DJs do on stage, then yes that's music creation, and it involves skill.
- mingus88 2y agoInterestingly, even in music schools there is a kind of snobbery from composers that performers are lesser musicians That is, if you are world class pianist and tour the world playing classical music, you are still lesser than a composer who creates their own works. Is an actor not an artist because they didn’t write the lines and aren’t directing the scene? Interpretation is art. Performing is art. That includes DJing at some level, because at the end of the day we are all using the medium of music to express ourselves and bring that experience to others, regardless of who wrote the notes on the page or put the track on vinyl
- Animats 2y ago> you are still lesser than a composer who creates their own works. That concept goes back to "There's nothing remarkable about (the piano). All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." -- Johann Sebastian Bach
- qmmmur 2y agoDJing is absolutely a form of music creation. Maybe not always in the moment of performance but the curation, mixing techniques, resampling, etc. wildly confident takes on this all throughout this post.
- polotics 2y agoDJ-ing is a form of musical curation, and depending on how well it's done the intricacies of mixing and layering become a form of musical expression.