to me this is a further reinforcement of the notion of much "laptop"
music (and by extension "laptop musicians") who exist outside of
academia, or without much formal training, being considered more as
"folk-artists" or making a new kind of "folk-music".
the laptop and/or personal computer (and related software) having
become, in our time, in our culture, as ubiquitous as the odd guitar or
harmonica laying around the house, are now what could be considered
"folk instruments".
conjures up images of "Deliverance" where dueling banjo's is played out
by a couple of folks sitting on the porch with laptops.
in fact on a tour in the summer of 2002 we ( 3-piece laptop improv
group) played a version of "dueling banjo's" on our laptops to
represent that very idea. we cut up all the guiitar and banjo sections
individually and loaded them on seperate machines and proceeded to
mangle them into sonic suuuuu-weeee.
On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:16 PM, David Powers wrote:
It wouldn't surprise me if people with a "proper" musical background
of some sort (I'm a music school dropout) are a minority,
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