RE: [microsound] microsound future

[Matthew Allen <matthew@xxxxxxxx>]

	The music industry itself is currently there. As music production
becomes 'easier' and smaller, the mystique behind the creation of music is
lost. Anyone with a computer can now create a song/track. Anyone can be a
'sound designer'. I think Its a bit more difficult to map to either design
or architecture though. John Smith can't build a building, encode it
digitally and post it on the web for all to download and live in. 
	However I also think the music industry has seen this wave before in
the late 70's with punk (and to a lesser extant in the 50's with rock). The
idea that anyone could pick up an instrument and play. I personally think
that this idea, and ones we are seeing now (the ease of digital
distribution, being the main one) create awesome shifts in the music
industry, allowing new genres to evolve. 
	I wonder what will happen 20 years from now.

m.
plex/elliot

> -----Original Message-----
> From: taylor deupree [mailto:taylor@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 11:45 AM
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> Subject: [microsound] microsound future
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> 
> hi list,
> 
> i found this quote as i was reading through  book called Mid Century 
> Modern (about furniture design)... i thought the same could be 
> applied microsound:
> 
> "under the pressure of popular approval, the modern furniture 
> movement faced its most difficult challenge: maturing gracefully. 
> whereas before the enemy was the unbeliever, now it is the 
> suuperficial devotee - designer, manufacturer, or consumer - who, by 
> unquestioning acceptance of a few shibboleths, makes possible a great 
> wave of mediocrity in the name of design."
> 
> is this something, we as artists, need to think about now? or have we 
> passed that point...? or not come to it yet..?
> 
> (t_)
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