Re: [microsound] Lemur!

[bryan garcia <brymoxine@xxxxxxxxx>]

david's right.  

i advocate the playing of 4'33'' on a lemur. 




and ya don't quit./


b.
g.












--- David Powers <dpowers3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The history of violin playing, the virtuosity that
> must be attained, is
> precisely what makes it an esoteric and aristocratic
> discipline,
> something inacessible to most of us.  I love violin
> playing, but in a
> hierarchical society founded on wage labor and dead
> end jobs, it's not
> an option for most people, and to hold it up as a
> musical ideal is
> tantamount to declare that music is an activity that
> should only be
> accessible to the privileged few.
> 
> Button pushing, on the other hand, is very relevant
> to the
> post-industrial experience.  I am a trained
> composer, who makes my
> living as a secretary at a university.  If the only
> possibility of
> creating music was to play an instrument like a
> violin that takes a
> lifetime to master, I would not be able to make
> music.  Even if I rely
> on others to do the playing, I'm in a similar
> situation - I wrote a
> string quartet that has never been played, due to my
> lack of ability to
> pay good string players to play it, or even read
> through it!  
> 
> So if I can create music through the use of buttons
> and sliders,
> computers, cheap consumer electronics, and anything
> that is readily
> available and affordable to the working person,
> that's an incredible
> opportunity!  I'm a piano player but I don't own a
> piano, so the
> availability of cheap keyboard instruments is also
> an amazing asset.  I
> don't understand why some people want music to be an
> elite activity only
> available to a privileged few.  
> 
> I can make beautiful music through button pushing,
> it's a way of
> transforming the drudge work of button pushing that
> I do in my office
> monkey job into something totally different.  In my
> personal artistic
> philosophy, I look at art as the transformation of
> every day life, a
> micro-revolution where the mundane undergoes a
> secret mutation to become
> extraordinary and potentially liberating.
> 
> ~David
> 
> >>> fscthaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 02/10/05 03:10PM >>>
> Aside from the lesser level of physical minutiae
> involved in the act of
> 
> pushing buttons/twiddling knobs, it seems important
> that virtuosity on
> 
> a violin is also the result of hundreds of years of
> technique, 
> training, and experimentation... when you listen to
> the playing of a 
> violin, you're engaging with that history as much as
> you're engaging 
> with the physical process of playing. This is
> something that simply 
> doesn't exist for Lemur-type instruments,
> synthesizers, etc., at this 
> point in time.
> 
> - Scott Carver
> 
> On Feb 10, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Frank D'Urso wrote:
> 
> > Oh dear God I hope you're kidding, but if you're
> not, that's a jaw 
> > dropping statement. I don't see how anyone can
> consider themselves a
> 
> > musician or even a lover of music without being
> awed at a display of
> 
> > mastery over a physical instrument. The amount of
> minute motor
> control 
> > honed over decades, synapses working in perfect
> harmony with 
> > appendages, the mind performing astronomical
> calculations on the fly
> 
> > in order to make horse hair dragging over cat gut
> sound beautiful? 
> > It's one of the greatest heights to which a human
> can aspire. I'm 
> > sorry, but it doesn't take a tenth the skill to
> twiddle knobs (even
> if 
> > you built the box and wrote the software) that it
> does to master a 
> > "dead-ended physical instrument". kp
> >
>
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> >
> > ha, in my first real band I often would get into
> this argument with 
> > our ham fisted guitar player, he likened my magnus
> air organ to 
> > "pushing buttons"
> >
> > This is my first post here, I'm Frank D'Urso of
> Roman the Edge from 
> > Boston.  Interesting discussions, I like it here.
> >
> > Frank "RtE" D'Urso
> >
> >
> >
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