Re: [microsound] politics of digital audio reflux

[Frank Barknecht <fbar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hallo,
jon hat gesagt: // jon wrote:

> as for albini, his reasoning for being pro-analogue, very simply
> articulated in a lecture he delivered (which was downloadable somewhere
> - i forgot where), is because analogue is not dependent on encoding, so
> it has longevity as an archival format.  in other words, you record in
> 44k sd2 files today, but in ten years, it's 192k wxy files (yes, i made
> that up), and your equipment doesn't even know what sd2 files are any
> more.  

But that's a political issue as well, because it is an example why
it's so important to base your work on freely available technical
standards and to use Open-Source-ish software whereever possible. For
example Csound is still able to render eletronic music scores written
a decade or more ago. And even if Csound10 may not be able to do so
anymore, you will most likely be able to compile a Csound2 executable
to render your old file, maybe on an old Linux system. 

However how many closed-source commercial software isn't in existence
anymore? All the work written with these tools is gone now, it has
gone "out of business" with the original manufacturer. 

It's not as bad with Max: You will probably be able to reconstruct Max
patches in Pd 15 years from now provided you have a printed hardcopy.
;)

Ciao
-- 
 Frank Barknecht                 _ ______footils.org_ __goto10.org__

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