Re: [microsound] Lemur!

[Kevin Ponto <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What about.... Technology liberates people from the constraints of 
> having
> to 'learn' something as dead-ended as a physical instrument?
>
> :D
>
> - Mark

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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