Re: [microsound] eno: wired or tired or perceptive?

[mik <prims@xxxxxx>]

It's always been like that, or at least since the beginning of "modern art".
You often hear ppl saying about modern art that they could do that too. I
think that's beside the point. The point is that they did not do it, the
artist however did (and often no-one else before him/her did).

mik

> "The great benefit [of tools like Cubase] is that they remove the issue of
> skill, and replace it with the issue of judgment. With Cubase or [an
imaging
> program like] Photoshop, anybody can actually do anything, and you can
make
> stuff that sounds very much like stuff you'd hear on the radio, or looks
> very much like anything you'd see in magazines. So the question becomes
not
> whether you can do it or not, because any drudge can do it if they're
> prepared to sit in front of the computer for a few days; the question then
> is: of all the things you can do now, which do you choose to do? This is a
> whole issue for which there are not manuals!"
> -Brian Eno
>
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