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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
I got into an arguement with a friend the other day about her approach to making music, she's got skills but to my mind it seems like she went off to do her masters and came back bedazzled by critical theory and hack tutors who use deleuze and his ilk to obfuscate their lack of imagination. Plus most academics seem to me to be totally clueless about what happens outside of their own little academic scene, which seems bizarre to me.
What do you lot think about people who go off to do an arts course and then come back like they've come off the production line? do you think it is possible to show these people the error of their ways, or do you think i'd be beating my head against a brick wall?
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I think you're generalising. I know a lot of people who are
academics and still work in the industry on a regular basis. I can't speak for the university she attended, though. Yes there are a lot of people who are professional
students/teachers in that they may have read all the books but don't have that special something real experience can provide. It just definately isn't all of them.
Regardless, if she's been giving more practical skills to be able to better explore her own ideas, it really shouldn't matter who gave them to her. If she can't move past the fact that the people who taught her this aren't her cup of tea.. Im not sure that's their problem, but hers. Definately not sure that it is YOUR problem..
I dunno. I kind of had a negative reaction to this thread from the time you said " I got into a fight with my friend about HER approach to making music" What does it matter the way someone explores and creates, and what does it matter if you don't agree with doing it the same way? Can't you find something else to bond over?