Re: [LAU] Laptop Battle Registration and Promotion

From: david <gnome@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Apr 04 2007 - 08:26:12 EEST

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 07:13 -1000, david wrote:
>
>> IMO, laptops, computer keyboards, etc, are very thin and unexpressive
>> replacements for the rich interfaces that we know as real musical
>> instruments - guitars, violins, horns, etc. Human hands and fingers,
>> human breath control, have been developed and refined for thousands of
>> years. Computer user interfaces have a long ways to do to develop that
>> degree of expressiveness.
>
> "A great instrument has qualities that the body can learn, and the mind
> cannot"
>
> -- unknown

As a player of a wide variety of non-computerized instruments, that
makes perfect sense to me.

-- 
David
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