[LAU] Laptop Battle Registration and Promotion

[david]

Robin Gareus wrote:
> david wrote:
>> Ken Restivo wrote:
>>
>>>> http://www.laptopbattle.org/
>>> The Laptop is the Turntable of the 21st Century.
>>>
>>> (The turntable of course supplanted the guitar sometime around the
>>> 1990's.)
>> Not for me. Disco and its present descendants SUCKS! ;-)
>>
> taste wise I quite agree - but as for the "hip" instrument in the
> music-scene: "the last guitar solo the world wanted to hear was in
> Purple Rain" (dunno whom I'm actually quoting; some piano teacher said
> that to keep guitarists focused on chord&melody: "licks are for air-guitar")
> 
> I guess the air-guitar will have a a good chance for a come-back once
> laptops are out of style ;)

There are people developing sensors for the hands/fingers that can read 
motion in three dimensions and map that to software controllers, to 
produce a playable air-guitar. ;-)

IMO, laptops, computer keyboards, etc, are very thin and unexpressive 
replacements for the rich interfaces that we know as real musical 
instruments - guitars, violins, horns, etc. Human hands and fingers, 
human breath control, have been developed and refined for thousands of 
years. Computer user interfaces have a long ways to do to develop that 
degree of expressiveness.

-- 
David
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