Originally Posted By: MarioD
Well this took at turn for the worst!

FWIW I think anyone who plays an instrument and/or is a vocalist is a winner in my book. They can use whatever means they want to make music. They are artists.

But if someone is just using loops, audio clips, samples, etc, is not a musician in my book. They can create music without any knowledge about what they are doing technically but that does not make them a musician IMHO. A sound manipulator yes, a musician no. YMMV

I agree.

This is similar to someone who uses oil paints to make a picture and a collage artist who snips already created things and pastes them together to make art.

They both make art, but aren't in the same league at all.

Some people do both.

To be a musician, you have to be able to play a musical instrument. You have to be able to create your own music, not just paste together music made by others. That makes you a musical collage maker.

To me, the classifications aren't a hierarchy, just a way of defining and differentiating.


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