RE: [microsound] laptop hell

[claudio chea <yituey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 2 cents from a lurker
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>
> I would not even bother to go along and hear a performance of classical
> piano or pretty much anything else if I knew the performer had only been
> playing for, 5 years say. Musical skill and performance ability takes
> years
> and years of study and practice and hundreds and hundreds of gigs to get
> down. Apart from a few outstanding individuals, why should you reasonably
> expect somebody who has been playing a powerbook for a couple of years and
> whose influences probably go all the way back to Kraftwerk ( crass point
> making hyperbole ) to move you with their musical insights?
> The tools may make it possible for non musicians to get gigs, but you
> can't
> download musical ability and experience, if somebody is good, you know it
> on
> whatever they play, and however they play it.
>


THIS IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS, OLD AND OBSOLETE WAYS OF THOUGHT IN A
PROGRESSIVE-VIEW LIST...???????