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RE: [microsound] Lemur!



I would call that statement the kind of illogical comparison you might
hear from an angry neo Luddite.

That argument is an illogical syllogism - I am saying that some
technology can provide for less difficult ways of making art. I am not
saying that all technology makes every experience or everything better.

As it happens, for some people in vitro fertilization is more effective
than fucking. Perhaps for some reproductive biologists it might be more
enjoyable.

 Noel Peters

-----Original Message-----
From: graham miller [mailto:grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, 11 February 2005 2:57 PM
To: microsound
Subject: Re: [microsound] Lemur!

the same philosophy would hold in vitro fetertilization as more
'progressive' than actual fucking.




Noel Peters wrote:

> This view always seems to me to be a view that subscribes to two
camps:
> the "standing on the shoulders of giants" camp and the craft adds
value
> to the art camp.
>
> Instruments comprise of an oscillator and a resonator. Acoustic
> instruments are limited by the physical bounds of what can be
> constructed, suffer from appalling ergonomics and demand the onerous
> learning of manual technique. Some people with particularly shaped
hands
> and bodies are either fortunate or disadvantaged. These limitations
seem
> to me to be boundaries that instrument designers would rather
overcome.
>
> They also seem to be boundaries that some people embrace as noble
> aesthetic parameters prescribed by some higher order. I can't help
> seeing this perspective as arch-conservative and fundamentality
limiting
> to progression. Perhaps some people prefer to look backwards.
>
>  Noel Peters


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