Re: Oh! The pain!

[as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tree of Schnopia)]

In <9309031726.AA25076@dlsun87.us.oracle.com> jdrukman%dlsun87@us.oracle.com (Jon Drukman) writes:

>In rec.music.gaffa you write:
>>>Always note the sequencer - this will never let us down.

>>As opposed to those pesky musical composition skills.

>do people really still hold such antiquated notions?  you probably
>think computers are a bad idea and steam engines are going to put
>miners out of their jobs.

I see nothing antiquated in the notion that machines are tools, not
substitutes for human skill (at least, so far).  My computer is not likely
to let me down--unless I don't have the knowledge necessary to judge the
finished product.  Similarly, technology which aids composition is in the
wrong hands if those hands couldn't do just as well without it.

But I am, by my own admission, not fully aware of the range of technology
available to today's songwriter.  Does there exist some machine which can
take a musical ignoramus and use his/her fingers to produce a symphony to
rival the much-adored Fifth?  If so, I'd love to have one!  :)

I think, to reiterate, that the quarrel lies not with the technology, but
with the accompanying atrophy of human skill.

...but then, I adored _Dune_, so perhaps we're coming from two different
philosophical angles?

?, Drewcifer

>(god it's good to be back!)



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