Re: [microsound] fennesz & pita creative?

[Steven Taylor <kung.funk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I hear Fennesz bought all his Guitars from a shop. Apparently he didnt even
raise a finger during the manufacturing process, he doesnt even know how to use
a hand-held sander!


> Hi,
>
> I was talking recently with Le Quan Nin (I know I spelled that wrong but I
> just can't do any better), (he is a French percussionist in the European
> free improve seen) And he told me that Both Fennesz and Pita don't write
> their own patches. . . (Fennesz words were that he is to lazy to do his own
> programming). . . It just seems like what are they doing then? The program
> really isn't just the "instrument" (when it comes to Max/MSP), but its the
> peace of music itself (that changes in each performance, and can be
> improvised on of course), but the creative "stamp" of the Program itself is
> too huge to overlook. . . .
>
> I am not of the opinion that if it sounds good it is good (all though if it
> doesn't sound good it rarely is good)...  I feel like the computer does so
> much already, then to go ahead and use someone else's max patch. . . I'm not
> even sure who is "creating" the music. . . .
>
> BTW I mean to be controversial. . . This problem exists beyond Fennesz and
> pita, A lot of people are "getting away" with doing very little of the work
> to make this music happen. .. .
>
> bye. . .
>
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