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Re: [microsound] music in the digital age



>No one tries to make their toaster sing.

based on a "general feeling" about society i would not be too sure about that...:) and actually i am apalled by the thought. starting with talking cars, chicken-alarms, farting cellphones and whatnot, a singing toaster might just appeal as THEE perfectly marketable thing

it seems to me, quite a few programs have these "interface" features like their own file browsing system (every software must have its own browser recently), features that need their own subprograms/routines. i don't need every vsti to have its own browser, i rather prefer to be able to drag and drop from the windows explorer, which is my file managment system of choice, and is at least somehow embedded in the os, and not one more function to take cpu/memory and not to foget, development cost.

because for many people the equation seems to be interface(that what can be seen/operated)=program(that which is controlled by it). 
so, for a program to appear "cool" it must have many visible features and appear omnipotent. 
just like a toaster has to sing....



thost

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: sediment@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  To: microsound 
  Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 1:33 AM
  Subject: Re: [microsound] music in the digital age


  > i think that a big mistake (and one that's been repeated many times in the
  > history of design) is to refuse to accept that what people have become
  > accustomed to may in the end be what works best... like it or not.

  On a somewhat similar vein some might enjoy this article by jaron lanier:
  http://www.edge.org/discourse/jaron_answer.html

  it's more about AI but there's much on software desing in general.

  >  it seems that a lot of people are stuck on the idea of the computer
  > somehow
  > emulating the 'real' more convincingly, but computers AREN'T REALITY.

  Preach it, brotherman.  That's what my comment about a "Virtual CD shelf"
  was trying to say.  If it's so damn much trouble to make computer
  environments seem like real environments then either don't bother, enjoy
  the simple, flexible utility of it or leave the house and find some real
  environments that satisify what you are seeking.  No one tries to make
  their toaster sing.

  >
  > btw...about that drunken conversation...we concluded that the closest
  > thing
  > we could think of to a 'perfect machine' was the bicycle. wonder what
  > people
  > think about that...

  What about parapalegics?  Or does wheelchair fall under the category of
  bicycles?

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