On Thursday 04 November 2010 10:43:12 you wrote: > 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", I don't agree with this but let's remove even that and give them a personal recorder and a secretary to transcribe what they have written. So, the pencil mastery is no longer needed. > but also the words and sentence > structure. But this is more parallel to the music side of things and not the mastery of the instrument side of things surely? > 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. Well, my son had enough facility with the crayon to make letters from a very early age. And again, isn't the rest more on the music side of things as I mention above? > > > 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. Indeed. And yet I think we often have a fear of this and think it might give someone a mastery over the other side. It is as if e fear excellent voice recognition software will let anyone write the next great novel. Probably mostly when we are not thinking clearly but the fear seems to find expression often enough. > > David all the best, drew _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
