Are DJ's real musicians?
#1
Posted 15 February 2012 - 05:01 PM
#2
Posted 15 February 2012 - 05:06 PM
musician [myoo-zish-uhn] mu·si·cian
noun
- a person who makes music a profession, especially as a performer of music.
music [myoo-zik] mu·sic
noun
- an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- the tones or sounds employed, occurring in single line (melody) or multiple lines (harmony), and sounded or to be sounded by one or more voices or instruments, or both.
- musical work or compositions for singing or playing.
- the written or printed score of a musical composition.
- such scores collectively.
Yes.
#3
Posted 15 February 2012 - 05:14 PM
#4
Posted 15 February 2012 - 05:21 PM
#5
Posted 15 February 2012 - 10:54 PM
#6
Posted 16 February 2012 - 11:48 AM
#7
Posted 16 February 2012 - 12:48 PM
#8
Posted 16 February 2012 - 12:51 PM
#9
Posted 16 February 2012 - 01:07 PM
Would you class this guy as a musician?
Also at least Skrillex produces the music, it still takes skill to create what he does.
Edited by Red Chaos, 16 February 2012 - 01:09 PM.
#10
Posted 17 February 2012 - 10:58 AM
#11
Posted 18 February 2012 - 09:40 PM
I think the the word artist? instead of musician, maybe?
#12
Posted 19 February 2012 - 04:35 AM
Would you class this guy as a musician?
Spoiler
i didnt understand half of what he did.
I would say that they are real musicians just that they are not required to know how to play the original instruments.
Then again, most awesome DJs have some music background.
#13
Posted 19 February 2012 - 12:13 PM
Non-vocal songs are still songs and their creators are still musicians
Edited by havocide3, 19 February 2012 - 12:14 PM.
#14
Posted 20 February 2012 - 06:54 PM
Just because he doesn't sing, doesn't mean he isn't a musician. There may be no physical instrument, but there is a computer, a LOT of sound loops, synths, digital instruments, etc. If you've ever tried to DJ on some turntables, it's not easy in the least. It really is learning to play an instrument... a really really expensive one.
Non-vocal songs are still songs and their creators are still musicians
Yeah, i agree that those DJ's musicians; but some just play music from their laptops, and are also refferred to as "DJ's", and i dont believe that they can be called musicians
#15
Posted 21 February 2012 - 10:07 PM
If we all wrote down what DJ, song and musician mean (what we think it means) without looking it up somewhere. you would probably see the problem with the question.
#16
Posted 21 February 2012 - 10:54 PM
No-one is a musician, they're not artists because nobody can play the guitar
Edited by likerobots, 21 February 2012 - 10:55 PM.
#17
Posted 22 February 2012 - 03:32 AM
Yeah, i agree that those DJ's musicians; but some just play music from their laptops, and are also refferred to as "DJ's", and i dont believe that they can be called musicians
Oh I must've misunderstood. Yeah those people suck, they aren't musicians.
Exactly.I think we are all implanting what our own definition of what a word means into what we say.
If we all wrote down what DJ, song and musician mean (what we think it means) without looking it up somewhere. you would probably see the problem with the question.
#18
Posted 24 February 2012 - 12:51 PM
I think we are all implanting what our own definition of what a word means into what we say.
If we all wrote down what DJ, song and musician mean (what we think it means) without looking it up somewhere. you would probably see the problem with the question.
Yeah i think your right,, the definition of each is causing some ambiguity in this post >.<
#19
Posted 24 February 2012 - 12:58 PM
No. He just presses play on his laptop...
I have just found out that I'm a musician too. Who will pay me now? I accept NPs.
Edited by Junjun, 24 February 2012 - 01:03 PM.
#20
Posted 24 February 2012 - 01:00 PM
#21
Posted 27 February 2012 - 09:44 PM
Also youtube Howard Stern on Deadmau5 he illustrates the other side of the "are DJ's musicians" argument (if inarticulately)
#22
Posted 28 February 2012 - 09:38 AM
#23
Posted 17 March 2012 - 10:27 AM
#24
Posted 17 March 2012 - 10:54 AM
DJ = Disk Jockey, "a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience." A DJ is the person who fucks around with turntables blending together songs to make them flow together while maintaining the atmosphere
DJing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE80h-V3s40
Producer = People like Skrillex, Zedd, Alvin Risk, and Deadmau5, who make their songs by messing around with mixing tools, drum pads, midi controllers, and all sorts of other different devices to achieve something they love, and other people can jam to.
When a producer has a live show, they basically just try their best to make everyone in the venue feel as good as possible, while, in most cases, making themselves look like a crystal meth addict attacking multiple dials and buttons
One of my favorite examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPmmqBK8prM&feature=related
So no, neither of them are really just get up there and press play and fuck around, unless the DJ/Producer is a lazy fuck, but then again, I don't really think they'd get big in the first place by being lazy.
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#25
Posted 17 March 2012 - 10:56 AM
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