<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:58 PM, john saylor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:js0000@gmail.com">js0000@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
ciao<br>
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> Gareth Loy with the title 'The Composer Seduced into Programming'<br>
</div><div class="im">> "It is important to note just what the<br>
> seducing agent in these cases really is. It is certainly not carpentry or<br>
> programming, or we would have ceased as artists and become tradesmen. It is<br>
> really the will of the composer, expressed through the discipline of the art<br>
> form itself which, in all cases, not just the ones under discussion here,<br>
> causes the artist to stray into these seemingly distant fields."<br>
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</div>i find it beneficial to try and make explicit assumptions, in<br>
persuasive writing or music composing.<br>
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what is the difference between artists and tradesmen? are either more<br>
valuable than the other? [try getting to work in a contrapuntal study]<br>
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'the will of the composer'<br>
that's a very evocative phrase<br>
what about zen composers? [john cage] what kind of will do they have?<br>
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i am suspect of self importance.<br>
i think learning how to use something [a digital audio environment,<br>
pen and paper musical notation, ...] will enrich a person.<br>
it's all connected.<br>
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a person has to make choices on how to spend their time. are they good<br>
choices or bad ones? it is not for me to say.<br>
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i think spending time learning dsp or any tools is worthwhile. as i<br>
said above, i find it enriching.<br>
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also, we are not machines. it is ok to have multiple interests [it<br>
means you are just more engaged in the world around you]. it is ok to<br>
fail. it is part of what makes us human [and not machine].<br>
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nonetheless, machines can be very helpful.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Just to bring it back down to my simple level ;o)<br>indeed, many things can enrich a person's/musician's life: some programming, a hike in the forest, even a lucky car crash!<br>But making your own instrument has a more direct advantage: you will know your instument better. While you're playing it, you'll know more about what's happening inside it, and that will certainly add something important to your music.<br>
Remember, ancient people used to make their instruments, sometimes taking a lot of time.<br>Actually, whatever i'm operating, i find it an advantage to know how it works inside, and an ultimate advantage to operate my own creation.<br>
2 cents, Andras<br>
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