Re: [microsound] tools <redux>

[Alexandra Hettergott <a.hettergott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: anechoic <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>the tool is [not] 100% of the message ...
Ok, why not just "the tool *is* the medium" ..., which is, in effect,
quite often the case ... ; i.e., at once the one *and* the other, e.g.,
a guitar, or a radio, are both a means of communication (a medium) *and*
a tool/instrument for tone production/transmission ... A software
application might perhaps not be a "medium" in the actual sense -- it is
an aid -- but the computer itself, in contrast, is both tool and medium
(even storage medium, but this is yet another story, though ...).
However, neither the tool, nor the medium being the message should be
true at hundred percent, where btw both the actual meaning of the terms
"medium" (transmission / communication / storage ...) and "tool"
(instrument / aid / artificial limb ...) are to be defined, insofar as
(for a given case) they will differ in essence at all ...
:ah




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