Re: [microsound] Music DEAD? ALIVE! Music ALIVE!

[Kerry Uchida <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 2/4/03 4:41 PM, Jan Larsson at jlarsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> i completely agree with you re fractals vs. dancers.  i have tried some
> of these automatic pattern generators (arkaos, artmatic and so on) and
> they just suck, they probably work to some extent with simple techno
> but are mostly useless with electroacoustic works and here i think they
> more often than not make it worse than going audio-only.
> 

Those are some very powerful visual tools.  When they
are not run in automatic mode.  Learn to program them,
learn to PLAY them. They are instruments.  What's going
to sound better...a piano roll or cecil taylor?

Kerry Uchida
Vancouver,Canada

"When I was a very small boy
Very small boys talked to me.
Now that we've grown up together
We're afraid of what we see"

New Order

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