Re: microsound Digest 4 Nov 2003 21:18:20 -0000 Issue 1049

[Kevin Driscoll <driscoll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: david turgeon <dt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> the main issue is that in the end, it's the music that matters & not the
> way it was made.
>
> unless you're a musician & you want to be able to trade patches--but
> that is of no interest to the simple listener.

Unless you believe that all people are musicians because of their
potential, I must disagree with this point.  I think it is of great
interest to simple listeners.  Imagine future scenarios where your
listeners could have access to your source materials to re-work.

Actually, Open source audio / music has been available online and from
BBS's for almost two decades !  I bet there's more than a couple people on this listwho would open their MOD files in a tracker to remix, jack samples, or
take a lesson in cramming 8 channels worth of music into a 4 channel
format.

Arguably, the sale of sheet music was an open music format.  Of course the
printed material was copywritten and derivative works couldn't be freely
published but aspiring performers had free reign to examine the "source
code" of the music and interpret it at will.

I've greatly enjoyed this thread and I'm happy to report that it's broken
a nearly 12-month streak of lurking !

, kevin

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