take the red pill

["Jan Pek" <swirlee@angelfire.com>]

>Every tool can be a toy, if you hold it right.
>
>Mark

double amen!! i studied with the engineers in uni, and the mascot was this 
giant 300 lb wrench called 'THE TOOL'. i remember worshipping it at a 
bizarre frosh initiation involving supersoakers with purple dye ammo and a 
lot of chains and handcuffs. its classic, boys with toys. its just, we 
like to romanticize it.

besides, on breath vs machinery, its very tricky stuff. you know how 
people disappear into the matrix.

one minute you are SINGING, BREATHING, JUMPinG UP MOUNTAINS. then you sit 
down at the puter to create some loops.... time passes... Machine Lord 
woos you with features, plugins. 

next thing you awake, you are writing a vocal formant synthesizer and 
youve forgotten how to SING, you are JUMPING UP MOUNTAINS in Quake and, in 
a frantic moment of clarity, you wire up lung capacity sensors to your 
monitor dimmer so that the screen fades whenever you stop breathing-- cuz 
you know its too late. You've been eaten. Know what i mean?

the secret is extraction. the red pill. something im quite expert at. 

bumbling,
yon

> In a message dated 12/4/2001 12:03:49 PM, swirlee@angelfire.com writes:
>
>> for now, i would hold onto my cash, not be enticed by the toys, and 
>> play
>> with myself instead.
> these are tools, i think, not toys..... though its clear that the 
> boundary
> between the two is easily blurred.....
> anyway, i'm getting a very positive feedback from hardware looping, 
> still.
>
>> channel that energy into breath and learning, where
>> you know it'll be wise. that's what im doing.
> nice suggestion!
> i try to breathe and learn *while* looping, rather than 'taking a 
> break' to
> do so.
> best,
> dt / splattercell
>




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