Cameron Carpenter - Not your typical organist
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Organist Cameron Carpenter is known as a “smasher of cultural and classical-music taboos” with his fearless wardrobe, edgy hair and atheist views. The Grammy nominated musician drops by studio q to chat with Shad about how he helped create the International Touring Organ - the first digital version of the instrument.
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papa bless
Go to the beach and frost your tips
Stay in the sun till it looks like you have jaundice.
I appreciate Cameron's articulation about the organ and its future. #longroadahead #neoclassical
James Kramer Jealous..? What can you possibly be so affronted by in what a bisexual organist has to say about his feelings and opinions about the furtherment of the instrument?
I think the point is that the organ doesn't need any "furtherment". Just like the violin or the sunset.
Very true. Organ music and Bach really are completely beyond religion. Most people put all of that in one drawer. But in truth Bach and organ music although written and designed for the church in the past has always been way more and beyond and above the conventional ideas. Bach does indeed go into Eternity. You can feel it when you listen to any Bach piece.
how is it possible for every word a person can say is completely and utterly pretentious? its a talent that out shines his organ playing!
EXACTLY
Yes - in his own twisted mind.
Are you able to name ONE "typical organist" against whom to compare Cameron Carpenter? Can you name the Titulaires, for example, of Notre Dame, St Eustache or St Sulpice, Paris? Can you tell me who is Organist at Washington National Cathedral or National Shrine? do these count toward your dismissive "typical organist"?
I completely agree with you
papa bless up
What wonderful wedges
Some of the comments here question his motives, pretension etc. His virtuosity is obvious. And I applaud him for it and post his videos on my FB page. I get great delight out of watching him play. One may disagree with his politics, lifestyle, philosophy etc. but don't shun the talent with ad hominem. He is a self-proclaimed atheist, but that doesn't mean we can judge his motives. Personally, I see atheism as a philosophy that can produce a dismal outlook of society as simply the sequence of events rooted strictly in antecedents without an intervening creator. He references Christopher Hitchens. When atheism is taken to it's logical conclusion, it is very mechanical, as Cameron sees the organ. He cannot philosophical vindicate the mechanical nature of the organ while affirming emotions, passion etc. While he is passionate, his atheism confronts emotionality. He sees emotionality as unstable and irrational. Yet he clearly employs it in his music. In other words, the beauty and passion of his playing contradict the mechanism of existence and philosophy for Carpenter. Granted, he doesn't realize this. Philosophically it is nearly impossible to vindicate his creativity with his worldview. So, in essence he is a living contradiction. That's not a character attack. It's a philosophical observation. The truth is, like Hitchens, he probably saw the corruption in the professing church with all its legalism and judgment and wanted nothing to do with it. I don't either. But I'm a Christian who sees creativity in creation (surprise surprise) and methinks Bach saw it too, as he dedicated all his works "soli Deo gloria." It doesn't have to be legalistically religious. It's a simple acknowledgement of our total need for a Creator in this universe of radical creativity, out of which talent like Bach and Carpenter arise. All God wants is gratitude. :) I hope Carpenter gets to the place where he can give thanks for his amazing talent.
Oh no..... This guy is back
And even more hilarious than before. It wasn't until recently I realized he is serious. This isn't a joke. So many incredible sound-bytes.
He speaks like a college freshman who studies philosophy. No argument against his virtuosity however.
Next time on the "Cameron uses 1000 unnecessary words to explain an idea he could express in one sentence".... "post-reformation attachments to Xtianity".... that means.... i really can't even wrap my head, dick.
Vanity, thy name is Cameron.
So appalling that there are so many Cam-bashing children posting to this site. Pity on you all.
Thomas Clark Thomas ! Great comment! Proud of you!
I see - but it is perfectly okay for HIM to BASH everyone else in the organ world, and to MUTILATE the precious repertoire.
He literally said in his video for the "international touring organ" he supposedly engineered or conceived of or who knows because the video is uninformative, that 'organ music was never something he'd be interested in', which is presented to make that idea seem to be the catalyst for his "international touring organ" aka an electronic organ.
He looks unwell
it's all the ego stroking, it takes its toll
If you would like a definition of a pretentious person, he is a perfect example.... how do people end up like this?
As a trained organist myself. I find him to be very pretentious and very full of himself. He thinks he's better than everyone and maybe he is but his ego is huge and I just won't listen to him butchering beautiful music
His entire argument is flawed... Your still limited by how many keys you can press at a time and how fast you can press them... Modern synths operate the same way.... Amplifiers
What are we to expect from a rabid PSYCHOPATH ?
VERY SICK. VERY VERY SICK. And IT knows it.
Why do you say that?
Probably because I am a psychopath.
I’d like to know too....I’m not super informed when it comes to him.
He is a pretentious know it all who actually knows very little. He mutilates the music with bizarre registrations. His attitude toward the instrument and other organists is terrible. His playing is often sloppy. He is self-loathing. How is that?