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From:
Sean Cooper
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Date:
Sun, 19 Dec 1999 16:25:54 -0800
Subject:
(idm) specious analogies that are telling anyway
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quoted 1 line Anyway, I'm not stumbling into the "anyone can do it, so it sucks" fallacy>Anyway, I'm not stumbling into the "anyone can do it, so it sucks" fallacy
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quoted 1 line love my Mark Rothko :-)>love my Mark Rothko :-)
me too. and part of what made rothko so breathtaking was the quality of the colors he used -- colors that he mixed himself. notwhithstanding any observations about what this or that peice of software can do -- and certainly not attempting to argue for the brilliant of shirt trax, who i, nonetheless, mildly enjoy -- a lot of computer music releases (for me, anyway) stand or fall on the quality of the sounds used. the form that those take in terms of sequencing and composition is not so very often the most important thing, as you've pointed out. computer music (again, for me) is often first and foremost an exercise in "sounding the unimaginable." sc onnow: blonde redhead : in an expression of the inexpressible (touch and go) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org