>Art Music (or Sound Art) differs from Commercial Music the way a Monet painting differs from IKEA furniture. Although the border is frequently fuzzy, there are obvious differences in the lifestyles and careers of the practitioners. Given that Art Music represents (at best) 3% of all music revenues, the question is why anyone would want to be an art musician at all. It is like asking why anyone would want to be a scientist instead of joining a technology startup. There are pros that are not obvious if one only looks at the macroscopic numbers. To start with, not many commercial musicians benefit from that potentially very lucrative market. In fact, the vast majority live a rather miserable existence. Secondly, commercial music frequently implies a lifestyle of time-consuming gigs in unattractive establishments. But fundamentally being an art musician is a different kind of job, more similar to the job of the scientific laboratory researcher (and of the old-fashioned inventor) than to the job of the popular entertainer. The art musician is pursuing a research program that will be appreciated mainly by his peers and by the "critics" (who function as historians of music), not by the public. The art musician is not a product to be sold in supermarkets but an auteur. The goal of an art musician is, first and foremost, to do what s/he feels is important and, secondly, to secure a place in the history of human civilization. Commercial musicians live to earn a good life. Art musicians live to earn immortality. (Ironically, now that we entered the age of the mass market, a pop star may be more likely to earn immortality than the next Beethoven, but that's another story).
Who is that, looks as orange as a jersey shore guy
>le spaghetti music man reviews
TROUT MASK SO FUNNI AND RANDUM XD!
>>63954114
Some autistic pedophile.
>>63954114
>not knowing who Scaruffi is
>on /mu/
>mfw
>>63955379
>falling for the simplest of bait
>>63954094
>now that we entered the age of the mass market, a pop star may be more likely to earn immortality than the next Beethoven
That's not true though because (some) commercial musicians rely on art musicians for inspiration and thus immortalize them as "musician's musicians" ala Nick Drake or TVU.
>>63955379
are all scaruffidrones this autistic?
>>63955777
But Scaruffidrones are important to /mu/ because they:
- Downplayed the Beatles whom Scaruffi is correct about
-Meme spam Trout Mask Replica which pisses everybody off and is therefore funny.
>>63956092
Scruffy is just salty that the Beatles were adored by millions of 12-year-old girls.
why does everyone think scaruffi is a paedo?
>>63957380
damn...
>>63958568
He wrote "why can't I marry a twelve year old" in some text but it's taken out of context for fun.
>>63958568
This bit from his "Why I voted against gay marriage" article:
>The fact that so many Americans still believe it should be illegal to marry a 12-year-old only tells you how far America still is from becoming a serious culture. The Europeans have long recognized that the greatest relationships of all times are between male adults and female adolescents, who are the most biologically fit to produce offspring, as well as the most physically attractive. Followers of the Muslim faith rank the highly controversial Aisha over all of their prophet Mohammed’s other wives, who were far past the prime age for reproduction. Americans are still blinded by puritan values. Adult females are more mentally developed than adolescents (not true, by the way), therefore they must be the greatest partners. Europeans engaged in relationships with adolescent European girls in the middle ages, radical Islamists engage in relationships with adolescent Muslim girls in the present. Americans are often totally ignorant of the virtues of relationships with adolescent girls, they barely know the biological benefits. No wonder they will think that sexual relations with 12-year-old girls should be criminalized.
