Think about this. Technology is called technology because it is new, timely, and a lot of these arguements I've seen have been typical technology versus instrumentation...etc...
The trumpet was "technology" when it was invented, no? As was the electric guitar, the piano....blah blah blah As was the typewriter, which is now seen as an antique. Wouldn't we then just think of these tools as instruments and new instruments like effects and synths and drum machines could easily in this fashion be considered both "technology" and "Instruments". In thirty years we'll probably look back at drum machines and see them much like we look back at the electric guitar. - Giles D I G I T A S // B O S T O N -- Giles Dickerson Art Director 800 Boylston Street Boston, MA 02199 -- mobile 617 899 9635 office 617 369 8601 > ---------- > From: James Bucknell > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 1:27 PM > To: laura gavoor > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [313] technology vs. art > > > > you're finding less imagination? > 'acid trax' was made by pulling the baterries out of the 303 and > slamming them > back in quickly when they couldn't work out how to program it. > james > www.jbucknell.com > > > > > > "laura gavoor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/31/2001 01:19:13 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > cc: (bcc: James Bucknell/Magazines/Hearst) > Subject: Re: [313] technology vs. art > > > > > In the very same mindset.... > > -Jimi Hendrix re-wired and re-thought how to record his music so he > could > get his guitar to sound like the music that was in his head. > > -Similarly the Detroit boyz took traditional gear and > re-wired/re-thought it > to develop the early tech soundz that kick-started (more or less) a > musical > revolution. > > Let's pose this as a question cuz I'm interested in peeps thoughts: > > A. Will ever-elevating recording technology equally elevate > imagination or > have the opposite effect...or both?? > > B. If both....how then does one gage or distinguish true musicianship > and > talent from creativity/imagination/uniqueness in composition?? > > I know this is a chicken / egg paradoxical type question, but as an > older > soul I'm finding less imagination in the place of technological > brilliance....who really counts more nowadays THE MAN or THE > MACHINE???????????? > > I imagine that facile people will always make relatively facile music > and > conversely us weirdo complicated folks will forever push the envelope > to > express human ponderings and intricacies in ways that have heretofore > never > been expressed......... > > What do you all tink??? > > > >From: "Rusty Blasco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [313] technology vs. art > >Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 08:32:36 -0500 > > > >Regarding technology (no matter the level of intricacy), here's what > my > >trumpet professor told me about musicianship. After listening to me > labor > >painfully through a difficult passage in a piece of music, he would > stop me > >(probably for the sake of his sensitive ears) and make me aware of > the > >trumpet. While holding it up, turning it, and knocking on the bell, > the > >man > >explained to me that the trumpet is merely a thing of brass, > incapable of > >producing music without assistance (in this case, the air of a > human's > >pursed and buzzing lips). The music is in your head, he stated, > pointing > >to > >his noggin. If you can't hear it, and performed flawlessly, in your > own > >mind, than you can't expect it to come out of the instrument. > > > >Maybe this will offer some much needed elucidation. > > > > Rusty > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
