Re: [microsound] physical filter

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tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>totally..... and although Kim and others claim that the laptop can remove
>the physical interface/skills
>of performance that most traditional instruments have. using a laptop itself
>inevitably involves a
>physical relationship, (usually quite static and tunnelled :). 
>
Well of course it has a physical relationship.  And I don't recall Kim 
saying anything about the laptop "removing" the physical interface--but 
rather offering more immediacy.  It's a matter of degree, right.  Some 
motor skills are needed to use a computer, but is it anywhere close to 
what is required by traditional instruments--especially in terms of the 
training?  With the laptop, the computer supplies the motor skills via 
the program.  The composer can sit back, relax and think.

>This
>interface in itself will influence the
>creation of 'sonic cioncepts',
>
Yes, well of course it will.  It does.  No one is denying that.

> Until we can beam our concepts from our
>brains into the performance medium
> we will be influenced by our tools. 
>

This is very much Kim's point, as I understand it, as represented in his 
order words, "the tool is the message."

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