Re: [LAU] [Android|OT?] CamSynth - Just an experiment

From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>
Date: Thu Jul 26 2012 - 23:12:37 EEST

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:57 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Neil C Smith <neil@email-addr-hidden>
> wrote:
> On 26 July 2012 20:43, S. Massy <lists@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> > I often feel that we now have many
> > of the tools we've been dreaming up for the last century and
> a half but
> > are (most of us) too chicken to use them to their full
> potential and
> > prefer clinging to superannuated ways.
> >
>
>
> Perhaps many of those things we've been dreaming of have
> turned out
> not to be so interesting in reality! :)
>
> i've probably used this quote before...
>
> "tradition is a static defense against a chaotic community
> and what would we gain by destroying it?" (annette peacock)
>
> when i was 15 it seemed to me that breaking the rules was worth doing
> for its own sake. now that i'm 48, i'm more interested in
> understanding the rules, the history of the rules, the sociology of
> the rules, the anthropology of the rules ... and only breaking them
> when its clear that "the way we do things" is stupid, anachronistic or
> just the freakish side effect of some historical event.
>
> music (the ordering of sound in time, and perhaps space) is a
> *culture* and doesn't really mean very much without a cultural
> context. throwing away the yokes of technology-past is the dream of a
> 15 year old. embracing the rules and ignoring the ones that no longer
> or never did make sense - that's how culture (and music) moves
> forward.

The truth is that you are right :(. But it shouldn't be that way.

Regards,
Ralf

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