I’ve begun editing my upcoming CD and I got to say, it’s LOTS of fun. I thought recording was fun, now listening to the takes is fun too. There’s something exciting about the rediscovery of the music that you made, the different sides. Every artist will say they have their way of interpreting a piece but really, what is that way? At best your subconscious decides, and even then, poorly. Some takes are strikingly similar, others are very different and mysteriously so.
It’s about time classical musicians stepped into the real world and dropped the taboos about recording. Forget music. Take those beautiful models from the catalogues in Victoria’s Secret–just about every pixel was tampered with. Or the Honda commercials that lasted 25 seconds but took hours to shoot and months to edit and splice. For something less extreme, take the papers that I write for class. I proof them the best I can in the 2 hours before they’re due. Point is, everything in this world now is edited and I think it’s a beautiful thing.
