Re: [microsound] "the message's in the muuuusic" (or machines operating properly, machines breaking down, and sword fighting (was max/msp history))

[Karl Moskvitch <moskvitch@xxxxxxx>]

I found the Zicarelli piece very interesting reading even though I dont 
find "timbre-obsessed composition" necessarily a bad thing.

And of course,  a "timbre-obsessed" piece of music will always be very 
dependent on the quality of the playback system.

fredagen den 8 november 2002 kl 15.39 skrev Plastico:

>
>> i'm happy to announce that "good" music has *nothing* to do with 
>> "good"
> software.
>>
>> heres a nice piece, by chance its a keynote by head of cycling74, 
>> david
> zicarelli -
>> http://benares.centrotemporeale.it/~icmc2001/after/keynote.php3
>>  - stephan
>>
>
> nice piece.
>   and after the the good/bad/whatever music has been produced with
> good/bad/whatever tools we have to consider the good/bad/whatever audio
> equipment the listener has at home.
>
> sounds made at my place can sound so different on some of my friends
> equipement.
> P.
>
> from the above link:
> "timbre-obsessed composition imagines that listeners have eighth-inch 
> stereo
> plugs that connect directly to their brains, that will allow the 
> perception
> of subtle spectral changes. Would you want your latest work played 
> over AM
> radio? Would its musicality survive? I'm not saying it has to, but 
> those
> constructing the most perfect (machines operating properly) or 
> perfectly
> imperfect (machines breaking down) landscapes should keep in mind that
> massive imperfection in the form of various transducers lies at the 
> end of
> the road."
>
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