Re: [microsound] Lemur!

[Christos Carras <ear@xxxxxxxxx>]

now, i may have missed the finer points of this discussion, but i do 
think it a bit of a dead end.

is there really a point in sparring over what is better or deserves more 
respect?

each kind of instrument brings with it a whole load of other culturally 
determined and determining factors. technology is not subsumable to 
ergonomics. technology brings with it a vast amount of culture in the 
form of implementing what has been imagined / desired in a social 
matrix, these imagings / desires themselves not being 'neutral' in any 
sense either.

for example: the fact that people in our culture spend vast amount of 
time and money in developing simulations (from 'virtual worlds' to 
physical models of acoustic instruments) is rich in significance.

so perhaps a theme could be how an interface such as this lemur brings 
with it a 'bias' to certain forms and modes of making music, and what 
that bias can tell us. the same could be done for the violin of course, 
as the instrument is perceived today.

oh! and what about 'hyper instruments' in the Machover sense, in all of 
this discussion?

tara,

christos


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