[LAU] Bitwig: what we can learn from it

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 31 March 2014 10:36:30 Fons Adriaensen did opine:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 11:33:02AM +0100, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:23:15PM +0200, Robin Gareus wrote:
> > > only for some kind of music.
> > > 
> > > Bitwig is just a toy compared to for example Csound and
> > > Supercollider.
> > 
> > But Csound and Supercollider are not suitable for
> > making music. They're fine if you're some kind of
> > autistic savant computer genius, but utterly fucking
> > useless if you're a musician.
> 
> Define musician.
> 
> The people who are able to use Csound and Supercollider
> can do it because they have invested time and effort in
> learning to do it. As has anyone who can play whatever
> instrument in a passable way (doesn't matter if it is
> a violin or a bass guitar). As has a composer who can
> arrange a song and write a score for it without needing
> a battery of synths to know how it will sound, or to
> check if his harmony is right.
> 
> And no matter how you turn it, learning to do something
> difficult has beneficial side effects, apart from the
> primary result.
> 
> Your 'musician' seems to be one for whom everything
> has to be prepared before and easy, so the only thing
> that remains to be done is some clicking on a screen.
> And then think him/herself a musician just as the
> kids wasting their time with shoot-and-kill games
> imagine they are soldiers.
> 
> Your 'musician' is in fact just cannon fodder for
> an industry that is about making fast money and little
> else. And he wouldn't even be able to exist without
> the efforts of those who can rightly call themselves
> musicians and be proud of it.
> 
> 
> Ciao,

+1 Fons.

Cheers, Gene
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