Re: Re: "Instrument" vs "Effect"

["Neil Goldstein" <swamilove@gmail.com>]

Interesting thread. By this description, it seems we are participating
in the art of creating music, partially playing an instrument and
partially re-mixing or engineering.  There is a ratio between these
actions that varies, and I would say in LD it is weighed more in the
're-mixing' column, as we depend on the actions of non-instrument
playing technology as a basis for a good portion of the sound content
in our music making.

Finding the sweet spot between the realtime human-created sound and
what the boxes produce is the ongoing holy grail of live looping, no?


On 8/25/06, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does it really matter what it IS? Isn't the more interesting
> distinction whether you USE it as an instrument.... or an effect. Or
> maybe the most important issue is what the listener does hear it as!
> Yes, I thing vote for that. And now I'll shut up and listen 'cause I
> know that I will most certainly hear the difference between "effect"
> and "instrument" and I really don't care since they are all essential
> parts of "music" ;-)
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