Perspective -0

Making music; music making.

First of all, I want to provide an divergent meanings of these two phrases. As a youth who studied popular music in a cultural and popular sense, as well as a music maker at my free-time; Making music, I think that is the most instant communication between you and your instrument, music; and Making music is more or less like making your music a communicative text, to reach other people (of course yourself). Both of them are a communicative process, in the meantime, a creative process. There is no any ethical, or good/bad judgment in distinguishes, however, what I purposed to talk about is the way in which a song or music should be perceived. Popular music is in all time by determination on how it represents the people who listen to it, like a broken-heart song seems to "talk" to the people who lost their love, experiencing an end of relationship; however in academic music it is to see the things another way round, it is to see how the people listen to a certain song and how they use them. For example, in semiotic analysis red could be seen as dangerous but at the same time it could be seen as "lucky" or fortune in Chinese New Years festival. One signifier could be able to have thousands of signified. To apply this concept onto popular music, we always forget the fact that the song or artist you feel connected to is only someone's else song and artist in which he/she feel connected to. The author is dead, like what Roland Barthes said, and interpretation is our best revenge towards a sign, like what Susan Sontag stated. I never forget liking a song or admiring an artist is a feeling, the thing is liking a song or admiring an artist is a emotional response, but at the same time it is an ideological response as well. People have reason on loving or hating a song, we said some song is good while some other is bad, but we don't usually say some song is right while some other is wrong, it is about the taste and judgment, which is built up historically, in a sociological, cultural and historical aspects, and I believe it much relates to how a song is perceived by music lover, like you and me.