Re: [microsound] Re: microsound Digest 8 Nov 2002 04:35:09 -0000 Issue 694

[Soren Goodman <soren-microsound@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sure there are many instruments that got thrown away because the
invent thought they were utter crap, though I'm sure a good musician
could do something interesting with it...doesn't make it a good
instrument though...

soren

* Joshua Schrei wrote (Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 12:42:48PM -0500):
> >If we have
> > an easy to use tool, but nobody ever uses it to make something good,
> > doesn't that mean it's really a bad tool?
> 
> does an example of this exist in the real world? humans are good at making
> 'good' sounds come from innocuous objects... washboards, saws, spoons,
> wineglasses, sticks... or from devices such as turntables that weren't
> necessarily intended to be instruments but have become instruments through
> human ingenuity. conversely, I can't think of one tool that is so 'bad' that
> it could not potentially used to make something that someone somewhere finds
> 'good.' so the whole issue seems pretty subjective.
> 
> is there an example of one tool that's sooooo bad-- the edsel of musical
> instruments-- that a good sound could never ever come from it?
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