Re: [microsound] audio software environments and context

[chthonic streams <chthonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Also a Roads piece of granular synthesis from the 70s or 80s gets a 
> different consideration than a Roads piece from today. Context is 
> important.

usually the only people who care about context are the same people 
who talk about this stuff on e-lists or in print, or are some kind of 
music historian/geeks.  nothing against those people; i am one of 
them obviously.  but i find myself arguing in favor of context when 
trying to explain why something 10 or 20 years old is good to someone 
who has no sense of context.  like, "when this was done, there were 
no computers or sequencers! this person had to come up with this and 
play it themselves!"  which just makes the person arguing sound like 
your aged relative romanticizing having to walk 12 miles each day in 
knee-deep snow to get to school.  but sometimes people are jaded 
because they think everything is easy and always has been.  and 
sometimes they don't give a rat's ass...they just want something that 
hits them right away and that they think "rocks", no questions asked, 
no strings attached...no context.


d.

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