On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 10:43:12AM -0400, David Santamauro wrote: > 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. I don't think the analogy is fitting at all. A novelist's or poet's art does not consist of being able to write or push keys on a keyboard. It consists of creating a good text. He/she could just dictate it to someone writing it down or typing it, and nothing would be lost. Now you could argue that a composer's art does not consist of being able to play all the instruments he/she writes for. So why not use a computer to find out how things sound. Simple fact is that anyone deserving to be called a composer does not depend on being able to hear the exact reproduction of what he/she writes. Entire songs, musicals, symphonies have been orchestrated or arranged rather well by composers (not only the classical ones) just sitting at their desk, or at most using a piano. They can do this because they know their trade. Which takes some time to learn. What we see today is a lot of people 1) unable to play any instrument or sing and 2) unable to create any music except by trial and error aided by technology. Yet they'd call themselves a musician. By that measure, they could call themselves painters, sculptors, writers, dancers, and whatever they want. Ciao, -- FA There are three of them, and Alleline. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
