Re: [microsound] MUTE article on PD + free software

[Kevin Ponto <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> If you look at a program like Ableton Live which is used by probably 
> about eighty percent of people making sound and performing out live 
> these days, it seems like. It's good for a very few things, it's good 
> for working with loops, putting effects on these loops and sequencing 
> them, but it pushes you in one creative direction, it pushes you into 
> making a certain kind of music, really it pushes you towards German 
> techno more than anything else.' Derek Holzer

No more so than PD pushes you towards "random" noise. While it may be 
true that many people who use Live don't venture beyond the "loop, 
effect, rinse, repeat" method, you can hardly blame the tool for the 
shortcomings of the user's imagination.

A person who is significantly swayed by a tool (especially one a 
versatile as Live) I think simply hasn't developed a mastery of that 
tool. I know my music has gone the complete opposite direction from the 
path in your quote since starting with Live (that is, away from German 
techno).

k:p

P.S. That said, great article, and congrats on being quoted.


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