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From: ajwells@ix.netcom.com [mailto:ajwells@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 10:13 PM
To: idm@hyperreal.org
Subject: (idm) Re: lets talk equip.
quoted 10 lines Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:55:12 +0100 (MET)> Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 00:55:12 +0100 (MET)
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> From: Johan Kotlinski <spleen@darkface.pp.se>
> Subject: Re: (idm) Re: lets talk equip.
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000309003608.4702A-100000@warwick>
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> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Christophe McKeon wrote:
>
> > Computers have mad thingness. They got more thingness' then anythin.
> > My question: How is a computer not a musical instrument?
Anything can be a musical instrument... that wasnt the point... the
point was that music is a highly specialized area of working... people
spend their entire lives designing instruments to be played and that
<snip!>
And Eno has made many good points about how the sequencing environment
produces music which is welded to the grid, no matter how complex that
grid may be... as he mentions, you can feel those bars and chunks of
audio cycling by your ears when you listen to so many records lately,
and its boring after awhile because your ear tunes out unless it
perceives a threat (ie a possible change or human inflection or
mistake)... and he makes another great point about how computers
separate us from the muscular action necessary to produce acts which
mean something and have a relation between a sound and the action which
produced it
A.
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Ugh! It sounds to me like you need to stop listening to so much "grid" like
music... Oh! what am I thinking?!! Electronic music IS Grid music!!! Give me
a break! That's the beauty of it all. That's why I like Electronic music in
the first place. It's the music of Robots and hyper accelerators. Geez!
-=GB=-
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