Re: nerds with toys

["Krispen Hartung" <info@krispenhartung.com>]

It could very well be a perfectly valid and subjective perspective. If so, 
why would we want to censor the viewpoint? Unless we are insincere and  
not 
confident in the integrity of our own approach to making music...

I am not siding with the original comment, which I think is a 
generalization, and because I think this is entirely situational and 
context 
drive, but I have seen many one-man-band looping acts where I totally 
agree 
with the comment below. What changes my viewpoint is when the musician is 
very well accomplished or he/she is truly creative. But when I see a 
one-man 
looper construct a piece of music that I can't really differentiate 
between 
a mediocre band, then it doesn't do anything for me.  It is very much like 
watching an amateur musician lay down tracks in his home studio. If the 
looper is a virtuoso or creating tracks that are really new and out there, 
then it turns me on.  Again, it's all context driven for me, vs. there 
being 
a hard and fast rule.  I don't know if the author of the original comment 
was making a hard and fast rule. There isn't enough info.

But back to my point, what we should absolutely and categorically not 
honor 
is censorship. A healthy community receives criticism with open arms and 
defends itself professionally and with tact.  I'm not saying that you 
didn't 
do this, tilmann (I am sure you mean well), but more predicting what this 
thread could potentially become if we let it.

I think we should get the guy to elaborate on his comment and see whether 
he 
really is just expressing his own personal feelings, or if he beliefs he 
is 
making an objective statement...if the latter, then we refute and falsify 
his ass to oblivion!  :)

K-

> why would you have to "honour" this prespective?
> i'd rather go for "happily ignore".
> seems to be a loud man with a short attention span.
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> tilmann
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> Michael Peters schrieb:
>> also an interesting perspective that has to be honoured ...
>>  /Nothing - NOTHING - is more boring and ego-fed than live looping, 
>> especially when you have a full band on the stage. If I want to see 
>> someone "creating tracks", I'll go to a recording studio. In concert, I 
>> want to see and hear a band working together making music, not some 
>nerd 
>> with toys making tracks./  by billthemailman January 30, 2:39 PM
>>  http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/01/30/in_the_loop/?page=2
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