[LAU] [Android|OT?] CamSynth - Just an experiment

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:57 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Neil C Smith <neil at neilcsmith.net>
> wrote:
>         On 26 July 2012 20:43, S. Massy <lists at wolfdream.ca> wrote:
>         > I often feel that we now have many
>         > of the tools we've been dreaming up for the last century and
>         a half but
>         > are (most of us) too chicken to use them to their full
>         potential and
>         > prefer clinging to superannuated ways.
>         >
>         
>         
>         Perhaps many of those things we've been dreaming of have
>         turned out
>         not to be so interesting in reality! :)
> 
> i've probably used this quote before...
> 
>   "tradition is a static defense against a chaotic community 
>    and what would we gain by destroying it?" (annette peacock)
> 
> when i was 15 it seemed to me that breaking the rules was worth doing
> for its own sake. now that i'm 48, i'm more interested in
> understanding the rules, the history of the rules, the sociology of
> the rules, the anthropology of the rules ... and only breaking them
> when its clear that "the way we do things" is stupid, anachronistic or
> just the freakish side effect of some historical event.
> 
> music (the ordering of sound in time, and perhaps space) is a
> *culture* and doesn't really mean very much without a cultural
> context. throwing away the yokes of technology-past is the dream of a
> 15 year old. embracing the rules and ignoring the ones that no longer
> or never did make sense - that's how culture (and music) moves
> forward.

The truth is that you are right :(. But it shouldn't be that way.

Regards,
Ralf