----- Original Message ----- From: David W. Fenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [Finale] TAN Blessing or Curse in disguise?
> On 5 Mar 2003 at 10:46, Tim Thompson wrote: > > > No matter what you do with a MIDI performance, the sounds are still > > electronically produced, and most importantly, must be electronically > > amplified through some sort of speaker system to be heard. > > I'm not so certain about that. The room can greatly color the sound > to make it more acceptable. But MIDI *performances* are not what we are talking about. MIDI *performances* are as good as the musician playing the MIDI instrument (plus the make of the instruments, just as a good cello will sound better than a bad cello). I have been to fabulous live MIDI performances, one which I recall as if it were yesterday was a concert by Bela Fleck and the Fleckstones. The drummer played a MIDI instrument which looked like a guitar and which he built himself. It was a fantastic concert in all respects possible. We are talking about the issue of MIDI becoming for some composers *superior* and *more tasteful* than going through an erroneous, human mediator called a [stinking] musician. A pace-maker is good for those who are handicapped and need it to control the rhythm of the heartbeat. The MIDI sculpting of music on real instruments gave at least one musician the opportunity to overcome his handicap and record music anyway. But there are others who are experimenting with implants and are trying to roboticize themselves, calling it an advancement in human creativity. So instead of addressing and cultivating the human spirit which they were born with and which they share with others, they are instead roboticizing a surrogate self which they deem aids them in their art. Liudas _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
