@Erimitus Said
Once upon a time I was at the music store in the village and the kid asked me what I played; and I told him I played the piano. He said “no; I meant what style (genre)”. I could not answer the question. I really do not copy or try to imitate any particular music.
I don’t even listen to music that much. I practice on my keyboard every day but do not try to imitate anyone. The music that I have heard is (of course) an influence but it is unconscious.
The sounds that I make just happen and they are only for me. I am my only audience. (I use a headset) It is really different when there is no one to impress.
A usual example of entropy is photo copies. When a copy is made of a copy of a copy of a copy…. Each successive copy has a little less fidelity and the hundredth copy is blurred and only vaguely resembles the original.
Doh!!! I was going to say that copying music distorts it even if only ever so slightly. And …and the copy of the copy of the copy is not like the original. Which is what I was headed for when I started with once upon a time** …I was going to say that this was other than good. And then, …and then (yet another realization) the distortion is neither good nor bad it is only different (even if only ever so slightly).
That is the ongoing process of creation from one instant to the next. And some people don’t even know that.
***…by “Once upon a time…” I am saying that the following story is an abstraction from actual events. Of course all stories are abstraction; but some stories are abstracted from actual events. And …and I just realized that it does not matter. Don’t even read this.
OK, I didn't read it.
A friend creates music and I've joined in on the creation at times. He usually doesn't try to mimic anything except what is in his head trying to get out.
People have asked "what do we play" - the "Genre" question - I've come to reply "Acid Folk" ... I don't know if there is such a thing. - but that is mostly when he is on his own. When he morphs his creations for a larger band, it falls closer into familiar categories.