Re: [microsound] Lemur!

[Frank D'Urso <fdurso@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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