| -----Original Message----- | From: Bulger, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 5:48 PM | | Music is not like your child's first crayon picture. Being enabled to | create by a piece of software is not equivalent to being able | to create. | More people creating because they _can_, instead of because | they feel the | need (read, inspired) to is more likely to increase the amount of | uninspired, lackluster music out there (those records you put | back in the bin and try to forget about)...
What harm do those records actually do anyway? OK, so more of these crappy records come out. If they're really god-awful people won't buy them. I'd rather live in a world with a vast plethora of mediocre music, a sonic primordial soup, out of which some real gems will evolve. People who think that the increasing ease of producing electronic music is a bad thing are pretty confusing to me. We could always go back to making our own equipment and programming drum patterns hard onto circuit boards, with soldering irons. Then only highly skilled electronic engineers would be able to make music - it'd be just like the 1950s, with only two electronic albums released every year! Wouldn't that be great? It shouldn't bother people that lots of music is made that they don't like. Rebirth kiddies are hardly respected or lauded anywhere, just as kids wearing Body Rap kits in the 1980s hardly made it to the giddy heights of fame. Quality control always comes into play... but I'd rather buy a decent piece of music made with Rebirth than a po-faced and turgid piece made using Russolo's 1920s instrumentation, to be honest. If anyone managed to make something decent with Rebirth, which I doubt... Brendan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
