On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:57 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Neil C Smith <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > On 26 July 2012 20:43, S. Massy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I often feel that we now have many > > of the tools we've been dreaming up for the last century and > a half but > > are (most of us) too chicken to use them to their full > potential and > > prefer clinging to superannuated ways. > > > > > Perhaps many of those things we've been dreaming of have > turned out > not to be so interesting in reality! :) > > i've probably used this quote before... > > "tradition is a static defense against a chaotic community > and what would we gain by destroying it?" (annette peacock) > > when i was 15 it seemed to me that breaking the rules was worth doing > for its own sake. now that i'm 48, i'm more interested in > understanding the rules, the history of the rules, the sociology of > the rules, the anthropology of the rules ... and only breaking them > when its clear that "the way we do things" is stupid, anachronistic or > just the freakish side effect of some historical event. > > music (the ordering of sound in time, and perhaps space) is a > *culture* and doesn't really mean very much without a cultural > context. throwing away the yokes of technology-past is the dream of a > 15 year old. embracing the rules and ignoring the ones that no longer > or never did make sense - that's how culture (and music) moves > forward. The truth is that you are right :(. But it shouldn't be that way. Regards, Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
