Comments on: Music Has No Value http://aarongervais.com/blog/music-has-no-value/ Website for composer Aaron Gervais Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ray Caesar http://aarongervais.com/blog/music-has-no-value/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Ray Caesar Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:45:57 +0000 http://aarongervais.com/wp/?p=610#comment-11 Interesting! I have often thought about similar things in regards to pictures and images. .....I made pictures all my life and basically put them all in a closet. I never put them up on a wall and I often sanded down my little bits of pigment stained wood and put upon them new pictures and have done this for over 40 years. It never even occurred to me that they would have value or even a reason for existing other than my need to make them. I made a choice somewhere in the past that I didn't care if my work was "Art" ....... I didn't care if I was an "Artist" as it was just a word like any other. I just get up each morning and work on what I want to see ...I work on what "I love" and I let other people give it a name. I often look at the rational world ..... needing their rational thoughts and concepts to make sense of the world around them. A man grows food so he can eat to sustain his body. A scientist uses rationality to explain the universe as he is convinced he needs to know its working....... My world exist in the "Irrational" ...it is my tool to create what I love ..The work has no true value or worth other than the work itself and without it my mind would starve and I would surely die just as if I had no food. The irrationality is what I need to see the workings of my own inner universe. I believe that Irrationality is the basis of creativity, the fountain of light that holds at bay ...destruction. Creativity to me ... is the source of Hope and I cannot live without Hope. I worked at a good paying rational job for 25 years ........I almost killed myself in boredom as that life was pure shit. Now I wake up and just start each day by making what I love .....even if the value of that work is only to me. I now live immersed in a irrational life as its the only rational way I can exist. p.s. In regards to music ...Hmmm! Over the last two decades I purchased very little music ......... mainly listening to the few good things I could find over and over like a broken record. Then one day I found myspace and Itunes .........I have been buying music like never before in the past ( Itunes suits me very well ...I seem to buy mostly albums rather than single songs ...the opposite of what I thought I would do )..I can buy immediately when the impulse strikes me ( I don't need to scribble down some convoluted name or obscure title my addled dyslexic brain cant remember ) ...anything from variations of Bach and Eric Satie and Arvo Part ....Jazz, Gospel, Punk, Electronica, ..Japanese Minyo and Enka..recent works by unknown bands and composers to work form the 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s and 50, ...ect. Ray Interesting!

I have often thought about similar things in regards to pictures and images. .….I made pictures all my life and basically put them all in a closet. I never put them up on a wall and I often sanded down my little bits of pigment stained wood and put upon them new pictures and have done this for over 40 years. It never even occurred to me that they would have value or even a reason for existing other than my need to make them. I made a choice somewhere in the past that I didn’t care if my work was “Art” .…… I didn’t care if I was an “Artist” as it was just a word like any other. I just get up each morning and work on what I want to see …I work on what “I love” and I let other people give it a name.
I often look at the rational world .…. needing their rational thoughts and concepts to make sense of the world around them. A man grows food so he can eat to sustain his body. A scientist uses rationality to explain the universe as he is convinced he needs to know its working.…… My world exist in the “Irrational” …it is my tool to create what I love ..The work has no true value or worth other than the work itself and without it my mind would starve and I would surely die just as if I had no food. The irrationality is what I need to see the workings of my own inner universe. I believe that Irrationality is the basis of creativity, the fountain of light that holds at bay …destruction. Creativity to me … is the source of Hope and I cannot live without Hope.

I worked at a good paying rational job for 25 years .….…I almost killed myself in boredom as that life was pure shit. Now I wake up and just start each day by making what I love .….even if the value of that work is only to me. I now live immersed in a irrational life as its the only rational way I can exist.

p.s.

In regards to music …Hmmm! Over the last two decades I purchased very little music .….…. mainly listening to the few good things I could find over and over like a broken record. Then one day I found myspace and Itunes .….….I have been buying music like never before in the past ( Itunes suits me very well …I seem to buy mostly albums rather than single songs …the opposite of what I thought I would do )..I can buy immediately when the impulse strikes me ( I don’t need to scribble down some convoluted name or obscure title my addled dyslexic brain cant remember ) …anything from variations of Bach and Eric Satie and Arvo Part .…Jazz, Gospel, Punk, Electronica, ..Japanese Minyo and Enka..recent works by unknown bands and composers to work form the 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s and 50, …ect.

Ray

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