[microsound] Period

[Matt Davignon <mattdavignon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, that's a silly thing to say. My first response
is that if email discussion groups like this one
existed 15 years ago, someboday would have said with
the same conviction that the future of all music
resides in triumphant guitar shredding period. 

Yes, computer and digital technology is wonderful,
great for sampling, arrangement, storage and altering
sounds. However, the difference between digital music
that's aesthetically pleasing than other digital music
is not "more technology", it's the decisions made by
the goopy brains of the people bossing it around.
Throughout this whole "digital everything" excitement
of the past few years, there are lots of cases of
innovative music and art being made in non-digital
means. I don't see a reason for that to stop happening
soon.

Back to the whole vinyl/cd thing, there are lots of
sounds and manipulations that can be made on a
turntable other than simply moving the record back and
forth at different speeds. That one ability is the
only real similarity I see between CD turntables and
Vinyl ones. Real turntables can do needle
manipulations, skip by dragging the needle across the
spiral of the media, and make all sorts of percussion
sounds. CD turntables have different settings for
playing different speeds (changing the pitch or not),
can skip in a different way and are excellent for
picking up samples or placing 'cue' marks that can be
returned to at any time. To say cd turntables will
replace real ones is like saying saxophone sample
libraries will replace saxophones. 

> regardless of the source material (in the case of
> bagpipes and acoustic
> guitars) or the end media (in the case of analogue
> vinyl), the aesthetic
> advancement and Future of all immaterial art
> (particularly audio and visual
> art) resides in computer and digital technology.
> period.
> 
> g.


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