Re: [microsound] Re: livecoding

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I meant that if you wanna get paid and if you wanna have good playing
conditions, you have to set up something that people understands.
Otherwise, only three or four geeks will attend. And you continue paying
for playing.

I support everything that means free knowledge for everybody: mp3, wiki,
open source, etc. It's just that live coding needs a very intellectual
audience, and it's difficult to find one here.

Don't get me wrong, as soon as I was aware of live coding's existence, I
showed it to all my friends and girlfriend included! I was amazed. I think
it's a great idea. Please dont satanize what's meant to be an subjective
analysis of live coding's role in electronic music.

Hernan

www.cooptrol.com



> On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 12:28 -0700, mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Electronic artists in general have a hard time around here (unless we
>> chose to stay locked in a room for the rest of our artistic life). We
>> are
>> middle class intellectuals like most of the posters in microsound, but
>> we
>> ARE constrained when it comes to artistic production. This is why I was
>> proposing a more socialist approach to an e-music performance, not so
>> technocratic, a way to adress people who dont even know what is code,
>> and
>> maybe even never saw a laptop other than on TV.
>
> Sure but this is a general argument against computer technology and not
> against livecoding in particular.
>
> Most of the software the livecoders are using is free (in some cases
> because they wrote it and gave it away under a free licence), runs on
> free operating systems on cheap hardware.
>
> This whole charge of elitism is based on a misunderstanding of this
> quote, "by describing a musical idea in code, we're describing it at a
> higher level than if we're entering notes into a sequencer."  The wired
> commenter you referred to saw that as elitism but "higher level" doesn't
> mean better, it means more abstract.
>
>
> alex
>
>
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