Re: Real instruments vs. electronic instruments

[dylan <dylanhassinger@yahoo.com>]

great points. and don't forget about glitches and bugs!!!!
the coolest example of interface as instrument.......

--- James Winger <jdwinger@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I think it's kind of continuum.
> 
> Even with things like hand drums, your interface is in
> learned technique.
> 
> Probably the closest to "seamless" is vox, but even that
> requires training 
> for good results.
> 
> Discreet parametric control isn't resitricted to
> electronic instruments, 
> "real" instruments like pipe organ require a bunch of
> "shit management" and 
> not all electronic instuments are about patches and menus
> (theremin for 
> instance).
> 
> I don't really consider "seams" a bad thing really.  A
> lot of it has to do 
> with compromises during the transalation from thought to
> deed if the 
> interfce were seemless, we wouldn't need practice and we
> might miss out on 
> the discoery that occurs when we interface with
> something...drum techniques, 
> polyphony, voicing limitations or characters provided by
> various 
> instruments...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Douglas Baldwin <coyotelk@optonline.net>
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> Subject: Real instruments vs. electronic instruments
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>  >when I play an acoustic instrument, I get a very
>  > distinct feeling - the user interface is 100% seamless
> on a doumbek (for 
> a
>  > patch change, I pick up my shaker).
> 
> I agree 100%. Even with electric guitar, at least the
> sound source is a
> vibrating string beneath the fingers. The user interface
> remains seamless -
> for instant patch changes, just pick/fret differently. In
> response to an
> aggravating question about extensive on-board electronics
> on a guitar, Rick
> Turner held up both hands and said, "You have ten tone
> controls right here.
> Use them!"
> Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large
> coyotelk@optonline.net
> 
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