"They're Not Artists Because Nobody Can Play The Guitar"

[rlainhart]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jztRZ34AEcY

An amusing Angry Guy rant opens this video about the Glitch Mob.

[jared_tt]

Cool stuff! I'd never heard of these guys before!

[St0rMl0rD]

USA police bugs me out, annoying the sh*t out of everything and everyone.

-J

[Premetheus37]

Hahaha. Commercial. Free. JAZZ!

~Premetheus

[RemcoG]

That guy is great xD

[mmichaelc]

They're artists, they're just not musicians.

[TheMayhem]

They're artists, they're just not musicians.

in the same respect that me taking a picture of a huge shit i took in the toilet is art.

[Grey Loki]

That depends on your definition of 'music', really - i'd call them musicians. They're making music - that's pretty much the only criteria that matters to be called a musician. Otherwise, you discount a huge load of really cool music - pretty much the entire 'experimental music' genre, for starters, and a lot of other similar atonal music as well. What if you limit your definition of 'music' to a set of Western scales? Suddenly half of the world's music suddenly isn't music? Not cool, dude :/

I recommend some intense study of Cage's work and philosophy to correct this immediately! :D

[Maximus]

in the same respect that me taking a picture of a huge shit i took in the toilet is art. well, that's probably art to somebody

[-=AnatomiC=-]

To me... not really musicians. More like producers, soundfreaks, DJs, mixers, etc... it is not about style, or theory - it more about how you ''create''.
To be a musician, you have to be able to play some kind of an instrument, IMHO.

Certainly artists as well. As long as you do something creative, you are an artist.

About shit on a toilet paper - to make it a piece of art, you only need to call it art. That's what a ready-made is.

[mmichaelc]

I didn't mean it like that. I like DJ keltech and he just makes loops on his computer and scratches with them etc. It's like what anatomic says, they have to be creative and just getting some drum loops and playing them on laptops isn't really in the same league as someone playing a concerto in a concert hall.
But then that's professional musicianship.

I think it's a lot more about opinion though. If someone likes some music then they're bound to defend it more no matter how it was created. That's how people like Miley Cyrus get in the charts.

[rifaa]

To me... not really musicians. More like producers, soundfreaks, DJs, mixers, etc... it is not about style, or theory - it more about how you ''create''.
To be a musician, you have to be able to play some kind of an instrument, IMHO.

Certainly artists as well. As long as you do something creative, you are an artist.

Couldn´t have said it any better!

[PinkFloydDudi]

As Anatomic said, to make art all you have to do is call it such.

If I were to rank musicians on a 1-10 scale, they'd be a 1 (lowest)
If I were to rank them as artists, I'd also put them at 1 (lowest).

Me throwing paint at a wall would be seen as art to some. Me pounding on a keyboard could also be seen as music if you look at a technical definition.

The way I look at that video? It took 4 people to make something many in here could do with 1 hand.

Cool programming, good producers maybe...but I struggle to call them musicians...and the word "artist" really doesn't mean much these days. Everyone is an artist.