On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 03:57:14PM -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. I don't think this is necessarily about "young" vs. "mature" thinking; I think this has more to do with being a rational thinker vs. being a dreamer (not an anarchist, necessarily). I believe a society or community needs both in order to evolve in a meaningful direction. Cheers, S.M. -- _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
