Comments on: What is the Academy telling composers? http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/02/27/what-is-the-academy-telling-composers/ Roger Bourland writes about music and life Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:31:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: PK http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/02/27/what-is-the-academy-telling-composers/#comment-8900 PK Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:02:29 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/02/27/what-is-the-academy-telling-composers/#comment-8900 I have not seen most of the Oscar movies, although I had a sentimental pull for Tom Newman. Not having seen Babel, and only thirty minutes of Brokeback Mountain, I do not know much about this successful upstart, but I would suggest that the Academy is telling us something we should be listening to, not arguing with. My career as a composer was, perhaps, foreshortened by my constant disagreements with the powers that were. In retrospect, as a music editor, I have seen how they were almost always right. My first mistake had been my assumption that movies/television had anything to do with art. The relationship between art and craft is complex, there is a difference. A craftsman can create art as a side product, an artist can use craft to make his art, but to insist that a craft is an art is to hire Van Gogh to paint your house. I have not seen most of the Oscar movies, although I had a sentimental pull for Tom Newman. Not having seen Babel, and only thirty minutes of Brokeback Mountain, I do not know much about this successful upstart, but I would suggest that the Academy is telling us something we should be listening to, not arguing with. My career as a composer was, perhaps, foreshortened by my constant disagreements with the powers that were. In retrospect, as a music editor, I have seen how they were almost always right. My first mistake had been my assumption that movies/television had anything to do with art. The relationship between art and craft is complex, there is a difference. A craftsman can create art as a side product, an artist can use craft to make his art, but to insist that a craft is an art is to hire Van Gogh to paint your house.

]]> By: jan2 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/02/27/what-is-the-academy-telling-composers/#comment-8644 jan2 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:38:13 +0000 http://rogerbourland.com/blog/2007/02/27/what-is-the-academy-telling-composers/#comment-8644 I'm relieved to see you didn't like the guitar parts of the Brokeback score. The guitarist sounded to me like he was just noodling around, but after all the acclaim I feared I was missing some really interesting structural features hiding in there...I have the cd from the film somewhere but find the guitar tracks too torturous to endure jan I’m relieved to see you didn’t like the guitar parts of the Brokeback score. The guitarist sounded to me like he was just noodling around, but after all the acclaim I feared I was missing some really interesting structural features hiding in there…I have the cd from the film somewhere but find the guitar tracks too torturous to endure

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