Obsolete...

["R. Ecalcitrance" <Akira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How funny to find this thread waiting for me, I've just come from a morning
long meeting with one of our development partners. So I'm sitting there in
this meeting with two branches of MEI, one based in Edinburgh and the other
in Osaka. I can tell you there is little that is more humorous than watching
senior Scottish engineers go at it with senior Japanese engineers. But on
the sobering side, seeing these massive corporations (Universal, Warner,
MEI, Sony...) committing huge resources to doing in stereo... is stereo
obsolete? Hummmmm...

> but i mainly said that because i certainly don´t think that someone who´s
> comfortable with his/her pc should get a mac (or even a mac emulator if there
> are any) just to get soundhack. i suppose it´s a nice little free app,
> but i still fail to see what makes it so spectacular - even after reading that
> "worship the glitch" article in the wire! (am i being TOO sarcastic here?)

ahhahahahhahahhahh... this guy sounds like some of the first year undergrads
that Tom use to stick me with at CalArts, oh the joy of having to tutor
insipid freshmen who think all music is created under a patent held by
Cakewalk, well It's nice to see that one of the little turds has risen up
far enough to take a shot back (even if he is Swedish, din morsa luktar
friterad getrov i fittan! ;) ), but now to the meat of the matter... is
SoundHack obsolete? Don't be daft, of course it is!! When I was at
Bennington and we got our first KYMA, Joel Chadabee and I were taking the
damn thing out of the box and we were talking about 'state of the art'
software. Joel said "if you're using it, it's not state of the art". Here,
here!! If you want to use software that's not obsolete write it yourself and
don't release it!! (and you were wondering where AL2 is...) Software may
come and go but what matters is your own process of realization, if that's
with reaktor cool, if it's with soundhack fine (please remember your
shareware fees, Tom needs new shoes). In the end the only thing left is the
music... and it doesn't matter one rats ass how you made it if sounds good*..
Software is obsolete almost from the moment it is released, but your
personal music making ritual never will be. On my last trip up to San
Francisco I was introduced to a young lass who makes pieces by secretly
attaching contact mics to the urinals in mens bathrooms... talk about
obsolete software.

    Akira Rabelais


*except in France where no one listen to music and they just sit around all
night smoking cigarettes, drinking wine and talking about complicated ways
of making imaginary music.