on 4/10/01 4:49 PM, idm-digest-help@hyperreal.org at
idm-digest-help@hyperreal.org wrote:
quoted 5 lines Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:05:42 -0700> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:05:42 -0700
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> From: Josh Bown <josh@undertone.com>
> Subject: Southpacific
> Message-ID: <3AD375A6.D8817DAC@undertone.com>quoted 14 lines Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:09:59 -0700> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 14:09:59 -0700
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> From: Josh Bown <josh@undertone.com>
> Subject: sequencing is lame
> Message-ID: <3AD376A7.CFA13008@undertone.com>
>
> I was just thinking about what makes all of the music I really love
> great, and it is because the rythym is supplied by a human being, and
> not a clock. Sequencing and quantization is terrible, lame, sucks, and
> sounds awful... When will we break free from the limits of sequenced
> music and how will it be done? is there any software out there that
> allows for composition without a sequencer? When will electronic music
> have the powerful rythyms that are found for example in primitive tribal
> ritualistic drumming????
it's there its what you make of it. rhythms have never changed, Josh!
you can more than replicate their (tribal) rhythms in sequencing.
what is usually NOT replicated is the soul and the meaning in which they hit
the drums. Which say, a recorded one-measure loop of them playing would NOT
accomplish.
peex.
delph
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