Re: Oh! The pain!

[pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)]

In <1993Sep5.141247.8737@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tree of Schnopia) writes:
>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).

And I'd bet you've never seen Jon say otherwise.  Be clueful and don't
assume.

>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!  :)

No such beast.

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

The same has been said about every technological advance forever,
but I don't see brain's atrophying in light of computers, or composers
atrophying in light of sequencers.

You seem to be mistaking technology to deliver a wider range of dreck
with technology to make music.
-- 
Pete Hartman		       Bradley University	pwh@bradley.bradley.edu
 "Mommy mommy, turn on your headlights!  Daddy's car is parked in your garage!"