Re: [microsound] usefulness of compressors/mastering in experimental music

[Alex Young <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 Nov 2004, at 12:07, derek holzer wrote:
> Yes, of course. And how many technical sacks-of-tricks from the "demo  
> scene" were interesting beyond the fact that the dude could hurl ten  
> thousand spinning cubes a second out of the screen, and he wrote it in  
> Assembler? ;-) I am aware of the dangers of becoming  
> programming-centric in the approach to art. I just came back from a  
> conference on open source video applications where these dangers were  
> well displayed. You had very good programmers demoing their stuff, but  
> what you saw was a hodge-podge mess of video clips being run through  
> every filter they had ever designed, one after the other. In this  
> case, the art on display was the code itself--and code worthy of the  
> name "art" it was. The video on the screen, however, was simply one  
> instance of that code at work [like a lot of Live or Reason tracks...]

I grew up looking up to the demo scene, those old Amiga demos were the  
reason I got into programming!  Being young, I never really questioned  
the validity of what they were doing beyond technical tricks.  I find  
it interesting that you point this danger out, Steve Sacks discusses  
something similar briefly in this paper (see the 'screen saver  
comparison'):

http://www.aec.at/en/archives/festival_archive/festival_catalogs/ 
festival_artikel.asp?iProjectID=12510

I've been looking at a lot of software art recently, and I find it sad  
that people don't distribute their code more often.  What I'm hinting  
at here is in response to your comment: "The video on the screen,  
however, was simply one instance of that code at work."

There's even less people using open standards such as SVG to create  
art, rather than Flash/Shockwave.  While there is some excellent  
Shockwave stuff out there, I couldn't even SEE Shockwave until last  
year when I added a Mac to my setup (until then it was all x86 Linux).

By the way, what conference was it?

Thanks,

Alex

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