I think the point of having examples of music made with linux (i.e.
tools available for linux) is to be able to see what can be done, to
have subsequent discussions about which LADSPA plugin was used and all
that stuff. IMO it makes sense for lot of people on this list.
erik
ISh wrote:
> Would it be beneficial to encourage a separate "music made with Linux"
>
> list? Thoughts?
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________
>
> Hi All.
>
> Music itself holds no prejudice so I think it should be all promoted as
> Music. ( Pure and safe , which is free from definitions and critics)
> There are already too many categorizations nowadays in music which
> usually ride a fad or fashion curve and are used for filling up shelf
> space. I think categorizing music as ‘music made on linux’ is baseless.
>
> And discriminating music on the basis of which platform it was produced,
> like Linux or from OS X of any other OS, actually degrades Music.(also
> is a very technical discrimination) It is not something like it is rock
> or jazz. It is also in a way admitting that linux is inferior in music
> circles, which is not true at all. So I think we should be a little
> careful while saying it is music produced on linux or a mac because for
> the end listener it will be our music that is doing the talking(not
> linux or windows). Linux, softwares, Mac, Sequencers etc are all
> important but are still 'tools' to achieve the music.
>
> <>Boom
>
> <>Ish
> frEeMuZik.net/ sarai.net
>
> (P.S I m a strong supporter of Free software and Linux ... but (1) the
> thoughts mentioned above are for ‘music’ and are not part of the 'free
> software Vs. Proprietary software’ argument and (2) I m not looking at
> 'made with Linux' as a very technical definition, i m looking at it as
> an 'end listener' definition )
>
>
>
> James Stone wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 31 May 2005 12:44:13 -0400, Greg Wilder wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Would it be beneficial to encourage a separate "music made with Linux"
>>> list? Thoughts?
>>>
>>
>>
>> There is the recently created "free musicians" wiki to post info and
>> links
>> to music made with Linux:
>> musicians.opensrc.org
>>
>> There is also a radio station stream there to which can be added links to
>> music.
>>
>> I think that it would be really good if people could set up pages there,
>> to make the links to the music a bit more permanent, and also to help
>> others to find out how the music was composed.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> james
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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