Re: [microsound] re: oh...

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:44 PM 5/9/00 -0600, pedro monkeyfinger wrote:
> ummm... ever checked out hotline much?
> most of the stuff i use to do the dsp stuff is free or shareware anyways
> puters can be had on the cheap, too.
> not to mention you can pull stuff off WITHOUT a puter, too

To give two examples of software oft discussed here, I just bought Reaktor 
for about $350, and I recall a similar price for Max/MSP.  And a cheap 
computer will not be to happy to run these things, especially without an 
audio interface.  Yes this music may be done on the cheap, but even for 
shareware one needs a connection to the internet.  My point is NOT that we 
need to be rich in order to make or hear or follow this music, but merely 
that the context in which these occur is one presupposing of internet 
connections, multimedia computers, and funds to support both and that THIS 
context is a bourgeois one.  Perhaps in a decade or two we will see the 
next generation of "Powerbook Jockeys" take the form of Golden Gate Park 
hippies and tube stop buskers, but those decades will be long ones I think...

np - Bass Communion (2nd)

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