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From: "Eggy Toast" <eggy@eggtastic.com>
Reply-To: eggy@eggtastic.com
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:11:03 -0500 (EST)
quoted 1 line I personally think it's great that so many people can express>I personally think it's great that so many people can express
themselves
quoted 1 line with music.>with music.
in theory i think that's great too. and the "punk"/"anti-musician" in
me wants to hear other such musical results. but in practice,
sometimes it's not so good. however, i suppose it's the most
freedom-embracing method. it could be worse.
quoted 2 lines i'd rather let everyone do it and sift through it all to find>i'd rather let everyone do it and sift through it all to find
>the gems, instead of have a mere trickling from peopel with gobs
of money
quoted 1 line (or really, really good timing) that may or may not be>(or really, really good timing) that may or may not be
good/innovative.
personally, i wasn't talking about having gobs of money. i was
arguing for innovation too. to paraphrase a popular saying,
necessity is the mother of innovation. having 10 million plugins is
not necessarily going to lead to that innovation. and back to the
money issue for the moment, if people were paying for all these
plugins they'd *have* to have gobs of money. a lot more than
somebody who only has a plastic bucket and a pair of wooden
spoons. but the one with less can sometimes make more,
because the brain is doing more work than the instrument.
as far as good timing, you're talking about the dissemination of the
music, not the creation of the music itself. although of course i
agree that dissemination is important.
quoted 1 line when the music market is wide open is when the best music will>when the music market is wide open is when the best music will
come out.
it depends on what you mean by "wide open". i agree in the sense
of dissemination, such as times in popular culture when the
barriers melt away and people realize it's all the same stuff on
some level.
quoted 1 line I'm sure of my own belief that IDM came into being because>I'm sure of my own belief that IDM came into being because
some people
quoted 1 line jumped on cheap old hardware and made it do new things, not>jumped on cheap old hardware and made it do new things, not
because they
quoted 1 line were holed up in a studio with expensive gear that's beyond most>were holed up in a studio with expensive gear that's beyond most
people's
quoted 1 line means.>means.
yes, this is exactly what i was talking about above. thank you.
quoted 1 line The entire genre, and most GOOD music, is born from people>The entire genre, and most GOOD music, is born from people
who simply want
quoted 1 line to make the music. Putting that technology in more hands can>to make the music. Putting that technology in more hands can
only do
quoted 1 line good. so what if some of it is sucky? It's better than no music at>good. so what if some of it is sucky? It's better than no music at
all,
quoted 1 line and there's a good chance that it WILL be very good.>and there's a good chance that it WILL be very good.
that's true. sometimes i just get exhausted having to fight to be
heard as an artist while simultaneously having to sift through a
million things as a listener.
d.
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