Re: [microsound] Re: livecoding

[alex <alex@xxxxxxxx>]

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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