Re: [microsound] an interesting monolake answer

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I guess using the power off button on the monitor doesn't count?

;-)

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--- Graham Miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> any thoughts on this? agree? disagree?
> 
> when i used to work in cubase VST one of the great things about it  
> was the fact you could turn off the display within cubase and just  
> listen to the music with a black screen.  i am always surprised why  
> this feature doesn't appear in more audio software. i was hoping they
>  
> would add this ability to ableton live 6. now after reading this  
> comment by henke i'm really surprised they didn't!
> 
> 
> 
> g.
> 
> 
> 
> from: http://www.vagueterrain.net/content/archives/journal05/ 
> monolake02.html
> 
> VT:  I?m interested in the interaction between the visual interface  
> (say Atlantic Waves or Ableton Live) and musical creation. How do you
>  
> think the evolution of sound creation tools from aural to visual has 
> 
> changed our relationship to sound? For example, sound editing has  
> shifted from a primary reliance on our ears (i.e. tape splicing)  
> towards visual representations of sound (i.e. waveform editors). How 
> 
> do you think this changes our perception of sound?
> 
> RH:  Visual representation of sound is evil. A waveform editor is an 
> 
> enormous help when editing sound but at the same time it has the  
> potential to keep the composer effectively from listening. The  
> visualization by nature stresses the abstract formal quality of a  
> work but makes no statement about its content. The result is obvious,
>  
> a lot of music these days works correctly according to a formal  
> scheme but lacks beauty within. It takes quite some courage to work  
> against the visual scheme, because oddly structured parts look so  
> wrong. The timeline always tells us how long a piece is in bars or  
> seconds but it knows nothing about our perception of time. We might  
> think a part is too long because it looks long on screen but in fact 
> 
> it is interesting enough to be much longer and we would not shorten  
> it if we could not see it but just listened. I often turn off the  
> screen or close my eyes when listening to my edits because the visual
>  
> representation is a false friend.

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