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

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 03:57:14PM -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.
I don't think this is necessarily about "young" vs. "mature" thinking; I
think this has more to do with being a rational thinker vs. being a
dreamer (not an anarchist, necessarily). I believe a society or
community needs both in order to evolve in a meaningful direction.

Cheers,
S.M.

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