Re: computers for tools

AMiltonF@aol.com wrote:

The computer is the most powerful tool on the planet. When recordingwas invented composers
were given a "canvas" to work with a kind of stone tobe carved. The computer will let us do
that with ease. If you're going to achieve higher art, you're going to have tosculpt it just
like you heard it. People are going to want to hear it exactly like you did in your head.

> I think Andrew needs to relax himself and sit down next to, say, a quartet of Renaissance
> singers, a cellist playing Bach or a Malian kora player, or even learn to play an instrument
> himself if he doesn't already. Then he needs to ask about the role of the computer in this.
> Limiting factor - electricity. I've got a fully kitted out computerised midi system with a
> rack of analogue and digital synths and samplers but if I want to share my music with
> someone, I play guitar or lute or sing or bash my djembe. Late breaking news - you don't
> have to be a professional virtuoso to make good entertaining instrumental music.

And for those of you who prefer live performance over "dead" - you should wake up, too.

> Performance is by definition live. I don't know what a dead performance is. And when I wake
> up I will still prefer live performance. Maybe it would be beneficial to look at the act of
> listening itself and to ask just what you want from music. A cheap thrill in the onanistic
> sense perhaps or a chance to participate in a profoundly social and spiritual human
> experience.

Andrew F.

note: this was intended to incite backlash - steel sharpening steel!

No offence intended in any of my opinions.