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And so sampling, dj'ing, these aren't skills? This isn't music?
by bobxmax 1y ago
And so sampling, dj'ing, these aren't skills? This isn't music?
- sirtaj 1y agoI see DJing as more akin to being a skillful curator than being an artist. They are related but not equivalent.
- codedokode 1y agoSampling is not just cutting a fragment from a song and calling it a day. Usually (if you look at Prodigy's tracks for example) it includes transformation so that the result doesn't sound much like the original. For example, you can sample a single note and make a melody from it. Or turn a soft violin note into a monster's roar. As for DJ'ing I would say it is pretty limited form of art and it requires lot of skill to create something new this way.
- bobxmax 1y agoYes, that's what people are doing with AI music as well. Acting like there's some obvious "line" of what constitutes meaningful transformation is silly.
- j4coh 1y agoI was a trance and dnb DJ, I definitely never claimed I was writing the songs I played and I think it would have been dishonest to do so.