dsp micro and humanity

[scott allison <lipistal3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, so what, not everyone making micromusic uses computers, why are you guys 
becoming such dorks? who gives a rats ass about how well you can write a 
patch? I think alot of we are getting caught up in is the technology, maybe 
thats all the new ae album is about. There is a good article about pimmon in 
a recent issue of the wire, he dosent waste time discussing max/msp or kyma, 
instead he talks more about what kinds feelings and memories he is tring to 
invoke or express in his music. I think this human layer adds a human depth 
that keeps the music alive so that I ENJOY hearing it a second and thrid 
time.

God I really hope this dosent become dsp for dsp's sake, I already went 
through something like that in art school.

If the only thing your thinking about when making music, is how different 
sounding your backwards patched fuzz msp fuzz box is going to sound compared 
to someone just using a fuzz pedal, then you really should reconsider your 
point of veiw.  I dont care if someone spent 5 years writing a fuzz patch, I 
think in a large scope it's how the musican transends the technology thats 
important. Maybe listening to the work of oren ambarchi will allow us to see 
that micromusic is more than just zero's and ones, his music is totally 
sans-computers.

also someone said you have to be one of two things, able to write good 
patches no one has ever heard before or be a good musican, well personally 
if thats the case than maybe If your a good patch coder, then you should be 
writing patches for musicans to use.

thats how it works in web design, not many good web designers are java 
coders, granted there are a few who are the best designers and also know who 
code works. But they are designers first.

-scott



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