Re: [microsound] livecoding

["\\js" <js0000@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi

On 7/5/06, mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A child can get sounds from a guitar, but I
> seriously doubt he can make any music with Perl.

but the child is not making music with the guitar ['sounds'] of
course, the sound/music dichotomy is false, but it was you who chose
those words.

i think it's realistic that programming live music is difficult, and
takes practice and study to make something worth hearing [whatever
that might mean ...]. audio synthesis is complicated! dumbing it down
won't help make better music [again, whatever that might mean ...],
just more 'folk' computer music [kinda what garageBand has wrought].
nothing wrong with folk computer music, but there are other types of
music that can be equally satisfying to hear.

and while tools that make music help shape it- there is hopefully some
kind of higher aesthetic goal that is being pursued where the tools
are not the focus, but the evocative experience in the listener is
[even if the listener is the same person as the creator]. but i
digress ...

many instruments are difficult to play [violin, theremin, organ
(w/pedals)]- but that doesn't mean they are less musical than other
instruments that are easy to play.

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\js  [ http://or8.net/~johns/ ]

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