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Originally Posted by steve0211
I am not sure why this is even a question. Essentially you are wondering if a certain segment of people that create music are musicians. Based on that question, one could ask if music creators of ANY genre are musicians.
Whether or not one is considered a musician should be entirely up to the individual. It should have nothing to do with the genre they work in.
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This has nothing to do with genre at all... it has to do entirely with the means used to create the music. It just so happens that electronic music is the only genre created with a computer. So again, I dont care if they are making rock and roll or jazz on their computer the same question applies and has nothing to do with genre.
I tend to agree with Dave. I think it all depends on your personal definition of musician. A creator of such music has to have a knowledge of music theory, song structure, and all those type of things to be considered a musician. Some one can play guitar, piano, drums and not be a musician as well. If you can't tell what an Am or AMaj chord is and yet you make music then your are certainly no musician. Also you have to consider a big part of being a musician is live performances, and lets face it electronic music is not exactly conducive to a enaging live performance one you take out the drugs, light show, and stage antics. I always looked at the definition of musician though as :
An artist who plays a musical instrument.
So I think this comes down to another threads question of is the computer a musical instrument.
edit: On further thought I think making music as such does not necessarily take any knowledge of theory at all. I have a couple friends who know almost nothing about any theory or that could even match a pitch and make some pretty good music with their computers.