RE: looping as sin

[Doug Wyatt <doug@sonosphere.com>]

Steuart wrote:
> >  guess I'm
> >bugged when I feel that people are abdicating their musical flexibilty
> >or decision-making to whatever tool it is that they use.

I feel this too sometimes, but I also think that some constraints are a
necessary element for creativitiy.  I think of constraints as ways of
letting us zoom in a bit from the perspective of "absolutely anything's
possible" to "here's an interesting little bunch of ideas to be elaborated
on."  Now sure, using the same tool all the time might have an annoying
tendency to keep us focused on one group of approaches instead of finding
others.


Kim wrote:
> I always find it remarkable when people perceive the newer, electronic
> devices as "technology" in preference to older things. I think the piano 
>is
> one of the most stunning technological accomplishments humans have ever
> made. The amount of knowledge and invention that had to happen before the
> modern piano could exist is simply amazing. That to me is one of the 
>finest
> examples of technology I can think of. Just because it's been basically
> finished for a hundred years doesn't lessen the technical accomplishment.

Agreed.

Sometimes I think of how revolutionary equal temperament was.  And yet, in
the bigger picture, it too is a constraint.  Sometimes I like to microtune
my synths as a way of choosing a different constraint.

Now if only there were an effects module in some of these digital pianos in
order to try to reproduce what happens when you play more than one note, so
it doesn't sound like two notes played in isolation from each other.

Doug


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