Comments on: Theory: Bill Evans on the Creative Process and Self-Teaching http://animationresources.org/?p=1413 Provides resorces for self-study for animation professionals, students, educators and researchers. Thu, 16 May 2013 02:45:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Andy http://animationresources.org/?p=1413#comment-103686 Andy Sat, 01 Sep 2012 21:31:18 +0000 http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=1413#comment-103686 Nice, but I would only take issue with his explanation about improvisation/interpretation. This sort of false dichotomy has given classical music a bad name. There’s always the suggestion that it is a dead art form, either because the composer is literally dead, or that the writing down and playing the notes deadens the whole idea of what music is. Balderdash. There are reasons for why a composer does what he/she does and to suggest that something is lacking in “interpretation” would be to suggest that each time we were to look at a painting that it be “improvised” by a new painter. It’s a touchy subject because the discussion always seems to be and either or sort of thing.
Something I recently read that Leonard Bernstein once said, in regards to performing a piece (he was talking about his conducting experience), that the closer he got during the performance to actually feeling he was creating or composing the music, the closer he felt it to be to the music and a successful performance. What a beautiful synthesis of both composed and improvised music this attitude is. Yes there were improvised elements allowed in certain periods, but not all composers composed that way, and performing their music according to what they wrote is both respectful and honest.

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regards

]]> By: Taber Dunipace http://animationresources.org/?p=1413#comment-7848 Taber Dunipace Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:29:49 +0000 http://www.animationarchive.org/?p=1413#comment-7848 Excellent video! As someone who has studied music as well as animation, I can really understand what he’s getting at here. There’s something magical about practicing until your hands take over for you and you’re suddenly free to focus on a new layer of performance.

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