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Re: [microsound] Lemur!
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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