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Re: [microsound] Max/Msp 5 is here
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- Subject: Re: [microsound] Max/Msp 5 is here
- From: Matteo Milani <coloursofnoise@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:34:52 +0200
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http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-05/ps_madmusical
M. Milani
Unidentified Sound Object
www.usoproject.com
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 6:36 PM, craquemat <craque@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>
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