Hi Drew, On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:12:57 -0400 drew Roberts <zotz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 November 2010 19:28:29 Leigh Dyer wrote: > > I don't think there's any point worrying about music production > > getting "too easy" or "too accessible" -- the ship probably sailed > > on that when Tascam released the Portastudio, or when Dave Smith > > and friends created MIDI. People have been making trite music with > > the best equipment money can by for years, and others have been > > making interesting music with toys and junk for just as long. If > > this helps people express musical ideas that they'd been unable to > > express beforehand, then that's fantastic. > > To me, one of the problems comes down to the split between musical > appreciation and creation and the technical abilities needed to > perform what is imagined / conceived. > > Imagine if a novelist or poet had to practice for years to gain > mastery over the pencil or keyboard in the same way a musician has to > practice to gain mastery over their instrument. I see that analogy as very fitting but the conclusion as simply wrong. A novelist or poet does, indeed, spend years (a lifetime even) gaining a mastery of not only the "pencil", but also the words and sentence structure. My 8-year old daughter will attest to the difficulty involved and the years it takes to master moving her writing instrument to produce the correct glyph--not to mention putting all those glyphs together to form words, sentences and ultimately a coherent story that expresses her intent. > > Tech that makes it easier to produce what is conceived are no more > dangerous to good music than is to move to a pencil from a stone > chisel and hammer. This is agree with wholeheartedly. David _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
