Re: take the red pill

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

I'll see your amen, and raise you a hallalullia, ma man.  I, for one, find 
it all to easy to get sucked into the world of THINGS, but I've gotten 
better in my old age.  If you spend all your time learning software, you 
really never get intimate with your tools/toys and without that intimacy 
it is tough to make ART.  I'm really bummed that the
software I've been using (Metro 5) is no longer going to be updated by 
Cakewalk.  I've been with it since version 3 when it was MIDI only, and 
now it's not working well on my G4 running OS 9.2.1.  So I guess it's the 
end of the line, and I'm back to looking for a sequencer/hard disk 
recorder that will work with OSX.  Looks like Logic 5.  Looks like
my wife will be getting my Korg 1212i/o as well.  What was deluxe, becomes 
debris....  OK, gotta go, the machine lord beckons...

Mark

Jan Pek wrote:

> >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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