Re: Warez (was Sharks Lungs in Haggis)

[noah <fishmong@braincramp.org>]

On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Gregor Zavcer wrote:

> I just wanted to say that it shouldn't matter if somebody bought the
> software or just got it from a warez site. I think there are quite some
> facts that speak for warez. The first point would be that a lot of people
> couldn't make music if there wouldn't be cracked software. I'm not 
>capable
> to buy all the programs i use because the prices are just to high. So, 
>if i
> would stick to the stuff i could buy, guess then i would have to use that
> piano site for making music (and we really don't want that, do we?:)))

I make music with what I can obtain within my means. I would have a hard
time respecting myself as a musician if I believed that I needed tons of
expensive software to create art. When I was a kid, I made instruments out
of rubber bands and buckets and bits of electronic toys. I then got a 386,
discovered the demo scene, and started tracking samples in Scream Tracker,
all of which I found on the 'net in the public domain or sampled through
my horrid mono 8-bit original sound blaster. At least sixty percent of all
my musical effort, for as long as I can remember, has been doing my
damnedest to push the equipment I have to the absolute limit and making it
do things outside the original specifications.

I have a hard time respecting the "electronic musicians" of the Techno Era
with their phrase samplers, time-warping sequencers with instant aphex
twin buttons built in, spending a couple hundred bucks more so they can
wow the crowds with the newest roland beat-mangler that sounds like
nothing else until everyone else can afford it. Fuck That. Ripping a
drumloop off a sample CD, running it through ReCycle, whipping up a
nonsensical 303 bassline in ReBirth and topping it off with VST or Digital
Performer sequence tricks is not good music.

Wow, I'm bitter. Pardon me. I've just come back from a very bad rave, and
I had one too many drinks. My point is, if you can't afford the software,
innovate. Use Buzz, Csound, and Impulse Tracker. Go to paia.com and learn
to solder. Be creative and work around your limitations instead of
stealing software and hiking prices for the rest of us.

</cynical snob>

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