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Re: [microsound] audio software environments
On Oct 12, 2004, at 8:42 AM, Michael Wright wrote:
No i meant exactly the question but yes not specific enough. Do you
not find that you tend to change your way of thinking about a piece
after hearing the composers technical rundown on how it was created?
I feel that we make allowances for music that is created with complex
programming tools even when they sound bad. If it had been known that
this same bad music was created with average audio software it would
be inexcusable. My apologies for a dumb question, this just seems to
be the way it is in this scene.
Perhaps you just don't like this kind of music, or rather, you don't
like specific kinds of computer music? Who's music is it that you don't
like that is getting a lot of hype? What do you mean by "sound bad."
Aura is a big deal in all kinds of music. Read a guitar magazine from
the mid 80s and see them freak out over technically brilliant but
soulless guitar-wank. All "scenes" add value to music based on
extra-musical context.
Discovering the process behind a piece of music can give one a new
perspective from which to appreciate it, but if the end result is
boring or bad music, it's still bad music.
Anthony
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