luderart Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Please take the question in a broad sense. I am not just asking why you yourself compose. Try to be philosophical and consider for a moment what might the role and function of musical composition be for humanity, what its goal or purpose could be. Is it the same as the goal of all art or different from that of other arts? What exactly is happening in the creation of a piece of music? To make the question even broader, one might ask "what is the goal of music?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morivou Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 It's true. Music is simply expression. It's an outlet of human creativity, spiritual or scientific. We make it for unquantifiable reasons. The density of answers to this question is so thick, no one answer can really cover everything. Philosophical enough for you? haha. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne-scales Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I find both the fact that this question was asked and the fact that it was responded to in earnest to be nothing short of absolutely and painfully ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morivou Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 I find both the fact that this question was asked and the fact that it was responded to in earnest to be nothing short of absolutely and painfully ridiculous. To be fair, I didn't really answer the question asked. I tried to provide perspective in a nice way instead of the toxic way people normally respond here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne-scales Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 See what he did, there? I feel as though my swag has been unmercifully jacked... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luderart Posted March 22, 2012 Author Share Posted March 22, 2012 One short answer I can give is: music is a form of communication. As such, it is more non-specific and emotional than language. It could be a language of the soul and of emotions, a way for people to express themselves emotionally, in a language particular to the communication of emotions and every spiritual and mental state (as well as their different "shades") in the most precise way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokkemon Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Personal self-expression sounds a heck of a lot like the romantic period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austenite Posted March 22, 2012 Share Posted March 22, 2012 Because it's painfully pleasing. A kind of artistic masochism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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