Re: [microsound] 7 points...

[cyborgk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I guess whoever wrote this never heard of "hacking"--i.e. coding something
the wrong way out of necessity, or to exploit some kind of unintended
accident in the software?

Anyway, I think this is plain misleading. On the microsound tip, isn't the
whole "digital glitch/ "post-digital" aesthetic a misuse of digital
reproduction technology?

Anyway, the claim that computers offer little opportunity to do things in
"wrong" (I'd prefer to say, "novel" ways is just plain wrong. A program as
mainstream as Ableton is easy to abuse. And in a programming language,
like ChucK or SuperCollider, or something modular like PD, Max, Reaktor,
etc., I'd say that things are so open that talking about the Wrong Way
doesn't make much sense anyway.

Whether people choose to work with their tools in traditional ways has
more to do with the person and the particular project, not whether their
tool happens to be a computer.

~David

> 7. Computers are a powerful force for rationalisation. Sometimes
> (e.g. when editing recordings) this is useful. In other
> circumstances, it may not be. Historically, interesting artistic
> results have been produced by people who were using technology The
> Wrong Way. People working exclusively with computers have relatively
> little opportunity to do this.
>



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