Re: [microsound] correspondence between hand-made electronics and Pd/Max/MSP (was Socio/political implications of microsound music?)

[nick knouf <nknouf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 3, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Exegene wrote:
[snip]
> There are idiosyncrasies and points of familiarity to be found in  
> computer instruments just as in meatspace's.

[snip]

> More necessary to development of the faculty is the gained  
> familiarity of repetition, consideration, and experimentation than  
> is that the faculty relates to objects more or less in the realm of  
> hands and fingers.

I agree with your points.  So perhaps I could phrase it that in a  
physical system, the constraints and limitations enable a limited  
number of paths through the possibilities of the system.  Computer  
instruments, at least in many of them as they exist today, present  
the entirety of possibilities to the composer, necessitating a long  
process of experimentation and repetition, as you say.  The value of  
this process is perhaps neither here nor there, yet I am still  
wondering if by imposing new types of constraints to path travel,  
limits that are not possible with a physical system, that this might  
enable, for certain types of people, a process that is not focused on  
efficient and regular manipulation of parameters, but rather the  
creative exploration of new possibility spaces.

nick

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