Reply To: FSM # 3: The $1000.000 Question: What is good [film] music?

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GerateWohl
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    To be honest, how dare I from the side line to claim, this composition contains no creativity? I have to think of all these John Williams on auto-pilot claims on some of his scores which are more or less statements about non-creativity or non-originality.
    One of my favourite examples is that art installation from the Documenta a few years ago where the artist just build a wall from bricks. All you saw there was an ordinary wall of bricks. But he hadn’t build it the ordinary way from borrom to top but the oposite, from top to bottom. To do it that way was a creative decision. But the result was an ordinary wall. Who am I to say, building a wall is uncreative and by my definition no art?
    Then there are these discussions from the beginnings of modern where peole said, this looks like a child could have done it so it’s no art. And we know there are hardly people in the world as creative as children.

    That is why I am very careful with such claims like this or that is a totaly “uncreative” or “unoriginal” work.