Re: [microsound] Fwd: Paul Lansky pulls the plug

[guiver ben <benreviug@xxxxxxxxx>]

what! has this person never been to a warehouse party? or a rave in a field? and frankly i really like using a guitar in addition to computer music stuff, which is electronic, and analogue, and also kind of controlled in a different way to logic or protools. 

he's obviously never heard the first nightmares on wax lp either. i think the terminology in leeds at the time amongst some record shop staff was 'bedroom boys'. 

maybe he's  seen some old episodes of the nathan barley show, where noel fielding ( pre mighty boosh) is a total geek with no insight into his incredibly annoying lack of talent, despite using many electronic devices and this formed the basis of his research.....




--- On Fri, 8/8/08, craquemat <craque@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: craquemat <craque@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [microsound] Fwd: Paul Lansky pulls the plug
> To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 7:22 PM
> It sounds to me like the writer doesn't know electronic
> music, or only 
> knows enough of a small sub-genre to make sweeping
> generalizations from 
> a populist view.
> 
> Case-in-point: name-dropping Radiohead instead of an artist
> who used his 
> software. Looks to me like the author doesn't know
> anything more about 
> Paul Lansky than Google or Wikipedia does.
> 
> Maurice Rickard wrote:
> > Phil Stone wrote:
> >> I  don't disagree with the gist of what Mr.
> Lansky says -- more power 
> >> to him as he enjoys the delights of acoustic music
> -- but the 
> >> editorializing of the article's author is
> maddening.  He writes that 
> >> computer music is about "total control",
> and has "no performers" (in 
> >> fact, the word "antisocial" was thrown
> in for good measure).  This is 
> >> a very bigoted view of computer music, perhaps
> deriving from very old 
> >> ideas about it.
> > 
> > Good point. It smells like lazy journalism--"OK,
> what's a quick, easy 
> > way I can set up some kind of tension/drama here...oh,
> right: soulless, 
> > antisocial computers vs. warm, friendly humanity. 
> Yeah, that'll do."
> > 
> 
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