Interesting and there's some good points definitely....
Then again the opposite arguements are alot stronger.
There's alot you can pervert with computers.
- cutups
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From: "Bill" <bill@subtr.ac>
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Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 3:48 PM
Subject: [idm] Interesting quote/Derrick May
quoted 25 lines Interesting quote from 1990 from Derrick May:
> Interesting quote from 1990 from Derrick May:
>
> "The reason I haven't started using computer-based sequencers is that I'm
> frightened of some of the concepts that go with them. Seriously. The
> computer can show you everything you're doing on screen, which is
> fascinating, but I think you lose a bit of insight. The fact that you can
> do everything, see everything completely and microscopically, break
> everything down...
> "Personally I like to change things by playing them, rather than by saying
> 'OK, I can quantise that one note, I can change that one note until it
> sounds fine'. It's like writing an exam paper; it's not art any more, it's
> working with a computer, and a lot of the imagination has gone.
> Everything's at your fingertips. Computer-based sequencers are going to
> make the market more boring because it'll be easier for people to create
> boring music. What comes easy has no substance, what comes with
> determination and a bit of innovation usually survives.""
>
> from http://www.forcefield.org/mt_dm.html
>
>
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