quoted 12 lines Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 11:45:41 -0600> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 11:45:41 -0600
> To: International Damage Machines <idm@hyperreal.org>
> From: Ernesto Ikerd <IkerdEA@lmtas.lmco.com>
> Subject: Re: (idm) lets talk equip.
> Message-id: <200003081745.LAA05850@cliffy.lmtas.lmco.com>
>
> >I think the dream setup for me
> >would be entirely software based with nothing but knobs, faders and midi
> >instruments atached to the computer. Currently I'm programing some stuff
> >in Csound (I'd upgrade to jMax but my machine is too slow). With a little
> >knoweldge in Csound and the possibility of jMax, I wonder why anyone buys
> >retail outboard gear at all.
Well there are plenty of electronic artists who either hate the matrix
that working in a computer environment throws you into or dont use them
much because they play live and understand the problems that one can get
into with excessive reliance on computers...
I know that some people work with computers and love them... and buy
into the myth that you can do "anything" with computers... but one of
the reasons for all of the sameness in electronic music at the moment is
because working in a computer sequencing environment does not present
the opportunity for things to fuck up in an interesting way and it also
removes the artist from the reality that sound emanates from THINGS
vibrating, not numbers approximating waves... that physical quality of
sound is often lost or changed in a computer environment...
Of course computer audio environments do make it possible for a large
segment of the listening public to create as opposed to consuming, but
when you see the glut of "electronica" currently polluting the stores,
you have to wonder whether that is a good thing... there has always been
a finite amount of true substance in any artistic field, and that
percentage doesnt change with advances in technology...
Many artists at the forefront of modern music are rejecting the
sequencing environment for more of a hands on approach because they feel
constricted by the "limitless possibilities" of the computer... in art,
unlike most other areas of life, more choices does not equal a better
situation... art usually thrives on limitation, and I think we are going
to see more and more artists moving beyond the computer in the next few
years... the more you TOUCH a piece of art the more you empart yourself
onto it... and you cant touch anything inside your Logic environment
I mean just look at the continued and even increased popularity of
analog equipment and hardware sequencers... an Expander or an MPC3000
hasnt lost any value despite all of the computer emulations... there
will always be something about the "thingness" of musical instruments
that computers cannot touch...
Of course your experience may vary...
A.
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