On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:23:01PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > The poor guy asked a simple question and you've chosen to put him or > his ideas down or to put him on the spot about what he's doing, why > he's doing it and the value he thinks he'll get from it. Why does this > have to be a problem? Let him make his music. If you don't like it be > polite and either make a constructive comment or remain quiet about > it. Mark, this isn't about the 'poor guy' who originally started this thread. I wrote: "... without wanting to comment on the OP's musical abilities...", and in a previous post: "... don't take this personally...". I wrote that 'incompetence' is one (just one) possible reason why people are wanting to use technology to simplify music or the production of it. And I don't think that statement is wrong. It certainly isn't in the case of the sexy female who can't sing but sells records only because of her other qualities, and who can't finish a song without automatic pitch correction. IMHO, nothing of value is lost if such people just would not sing at all. That is of course an extreme example. And yes, that same technology is occasionally useful to save the work of a competent singer, but that's not why it exists. There are some kinds of music for which a strictly constant beat is an essential feature. I do not reject such music because of that, on the contrary there is a lot of it that I do appreciate very much. And there isn't anything wrong with such music because of that regular beat. Again on the contrary, almost all art is in a way the result of some restrictions that the artist imposes on his tools and his style. The result is that other dimensions will emerge, as is indeed the case with some of the music I refer to. But it doesn't follow that anyone who can run Hydrogen becomes a instant musician. Yet some people seem to believe this, often motivated by some ideology of 'democratic' art. The real value of such tools is the fact they are available, not any automatic guarantee of quality or relevance of what is produced using them. Kind regards, -- FA Laboratorio di Acustica ed Elettroacustica Parma, Italia O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte ! _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
