Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 06:17 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I have found this discussion of blind photographers and deaf musicians > frustrating. > I keep waiting for the punch line but its amazing that nobodies telling > a joke! [snip] > Beethoven wrote half his output deaf. From the start unlike most > composers who sat at the piano to compose Beethoven composed at his > desk. Beethoven was a towering genius who did loop de loops around his > non competition Many if not most serious composers write music in their heads rather than noodling at a piano. Noodling is in fact quite stifling as you tend to start pattern-playing so your hands write the music instead of your brain. I am certainly not remotely a serious composer but even when writing pop songs I could do most of it in my head. You don't have to hear how it sounds to know how it should sound. Even now (and I am very out of practice) I could write you a song with words and write out the melody, accompaniment and vocal harmonies without having to pick up an instrument or hum a tune. These days I have a pretty clear idea of the photographs I want to make long before I pick up the camera. That includes street-shooting. I am reasonably confident that you could blindfold me and, given a helpful and knowledgeable assistant, I could make you some interesting photographs that the assistant on their own would have been quite unable to conceive of. I am sure you could do the same. Maybe we should try it. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html