[LAU] Marrying MIDI with Music

[david]

Actually, he did. He just couldn't hear it through his hearing loss, but 
he could feel the vibrations. That's one reason he liked thunderous bass 
and playing pianos so hard he broke them. ;-)

Charles Linart wrote:
> Great point.  For that matter, I think sound takes the humanity out of
> music.  Much better to express everything in musical or mathematical
> notation and leave it up to the imagination.  Beethoven didn't need no
> stinkin' sound.
> 
> On Jan 22, 2008 11:50 AM, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote:
>> On Friday 18 January 2008 03:37:44 Charles Linart wrote:
>>> Hello everybody.  Have been experimenting lately.  Reared on dear old
>>> Dad's Radio Shack cassette recorder and vanilla four-track analog
>>> recording, I've always been pretty much a straight-shootin' audio guy.
>>>  Linux audio has opened up new worlds to me.  Nowadays, I'm getting
>>> into MIDI, and while I still think it stinks as a general rule (takes
>>> the humanity out of music IMHO), I can see its utility.
>> I think instruments take the humanity out of music.  Far better to have
>> unaccompanied voices.
>>
>> Gordon

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