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Re: [microsound] Max/Msp 5 is here



I for one don't especially like this increasingly automated approach to making music. Ableton Live used to be a very neat tool for doing certain specific things, but it has swollen into this beast that practically makes the music on its own.

And personally I am growing weary of so much computer-aided music sounding the same. I don't know how much of this can be blamed on the software or not.

I suppose the real works of art will end up outshining the others as time passes. In some ways it's probably no good to blame the tools, but the humans who use them.

There is a really neat blurb in this month's Wired (Steve Carrell on the front) about Curtis Roads and microsound. He makes an applicable comment on how "ravers" (which I take to mean not just literally people who go to raves, but the generation of music makers inspired by that tradition when making music) definitely make some beautiful sounds, but there is not much depth or narrative in what they're doing.

In other words, the art isn't as rich, even if the paint job is stellar.

Graham Miller wrote:
in that lengthy robert henke video i posted a little while ago he says nothing will happen until max 5 is out and then he eluded to the pluggo product line, implying that there might some kind of function that allows users to build there own plug-ins within live... but he was pretty tight-lipped about the whole venture. someone asked him about jitter and video in live and he just smiled and didn't respond, saying 'he already said too much.' to be honest, they themselves probably don't even know for sure what's going to happen...



On 23-Apr-08, at 7:26 PM, Matt Tierney wrote:

DIY Live instruments/effects?

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Hans Erik Nilsson <hasse@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

can't wait to find out what they're gonna do w/ ableton now that max
is done...

Yeah, absolutely. Anyone on the list picked up on any rumours on what
could
be the outcome of the partnership between Cycling 74 and Ableton?

/Cheers,
/Hasse

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