[linux-audio-dev] Re:ZynAddSubFX

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

Fons,

Thank you for your words. My thoughts on the matter are much the same as
yours, but I hadn't managed to come up with the words to express them on
my own. The questions you ask Paul are the questions I would like to
have asked on my own if only I had been able to formulate them.

-Eric Rz.

Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:22:19AM -0300, Juan Linietsky wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 16 July 2003 22:21, Nasca Paul wrote:
> 
> > > Hi.
> > > I released ZynAddSubFX 1.4.2
> 
> > I can understand about metal lyrics being anti-christian, we've seen
> > that countless times in groups from megadeth to iron maiden,
> > But I have no idea why "New Age" music is considered against god, since
> > it has nothing to do with the "New Age" spiritual/religious movement (which
> > is definitely anti-christian). Nowadays people calls "New Age" music to
> > anything ambient, soft jazz, lounge, soundtraquesque, etc. Even people
> > like vangelis gets his music called "New Age" and he never intended it
> > to be associated with that name. As far as I know, and for historical reasons,
> > the idea of  the term comes from the idea of ritualistic music based on
> > sustained voices, beats and nature elements inspired on indian tranditions
> > and that kind of things, but was rapidly taken by musicans to call anything
> > nature/ambient and out of the context of religion. Maybe the site should
> > specify "Anti christian ritual music"?
> 
> This may be off-topic, but not entirely. When the author of an audio
> app requests users not to use his work to produce music that is anti-
> Christian, I wonder what is meant by this. If this were a commercial
> app, I wouldn't bother about it for a second. But since it is open
> source and just given to me, I do.
> 
> All major religions share the same ethical values - of love, respect for
> human life (and to varying degrees, other forms of life), honesty, etc.
> And I think all of this can be subscribed to by most of humanity.
> 
> With the possible exception of Buddhism, which in all its variations
> emphasises personal responsability and offers little else to blame for
> your misery, all of them also offer a scala of tendencies ranging from
> fundamentalist (adherence to rules) to spriritual (adherence to principles).
> Where they differ is in how they try to explain things - creation, the
> choice of moral values, etc.
> 
> So what does it mean to be 'anti-Christian'? Personally, I'll be anti-X
> when either X is harmful to society, or when X propagates intolerance to
> other ways of thinking.
> 
> So my question to the author if ZynAddSubFX is this: if I use your work
> to produce Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist or other religious music (all very
> beautiful and elevating the spirit), do you object ? When I play Mozart's
> freemason's mourning music which can bring tears to my eyes, do you mind ?
> 
> If yes, I will respect this and not use your work at all.
> If no, maybe you should consider rephrasing your conditions.
> 
> With kind regards,
> 
> FA