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

["Beni Borja" <beni.borja@xxxxxxxxxx>]

that's a very good point indeed.. I agree and in fact reinforces my  view
that good music comes first.

B.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Soren Goodman" <soren-microsound@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: [microsound] Re: microsound Digest 8 Nov 2002 04:35:09 -0000
Issue 694

> * Kim Cascone wrote (Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:29:17AM -0800):
> > on 11/7/02 8:35 PM, soren wrote:
> >
> > > We can't have music without instruments.   Likewise we can't have
"good"
> > > instruments without "good" music.
> > you might want to reconsider the logic behind this conjecture...from
where I
> > sit it looks broken...
> >
>
>
>
> I'm saying what makes something good is the way it's used.  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?  Stradivarius designed his
> violins for music that had already been written and was already accepted
> at the time as good.  Because there was already a definition of what is
> good, he knew how to design the instrument.
>
> A stradivarius violin would never have been considered history if they
were
> designed to make it easy to play avante garde squeeks but were used to
> play bach.  It wouldn't work.
>
> Notice the direction I'm moving in; good instruments come from good
> music, not necessarily the other way around.  If we don't ever have good
> music there is no way to define an instrument as good...I would venture
> to say that if no good music is ever made on an instrument than we can
> define that instrument as bad.
>
> This doesn't mean that if good music is made on a good instrument that
> makes the instrument good...
>
> It's all subjective, really.  A feedback mixer isn't a good instrument
> until it's used.
>
> soren
>
>
>
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