28 Apr
2010
28 Apr
'10
11:55 a.m.
Hey Lorenzo!
The point is not extreme. It deals with music which requires sound
manipulation. Thanks to everybody's feedback, I might change the wording to
better explain what I mean. As stated in the article, by electronic musician
there I mean a musician who manipulates sound. Usually, it is ambient-kinda
music, like this:
http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projects&s=music&t=catalogue&n…
If you listen to that, it is a whole class of electronic music. Having an
app like Rakarrack is key for that kind of music - in fact, it is all about
transforming sounds, there are no melodies in a strict sense of the word.
Prior to Rakarrack I was on my way to installing Windows XP on another
laptop for music. Now that plan is put to a halt.
So my article is for a rather niche kind of composers, but it is a niche I
want the devs to know about.
L.V.
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Lorenzo <lsutton(a)libero.it> wrote:
Hi,
Hey guys!
Read it here:
http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projects&s=writings&t=linux&a=…
Any comments are welcome.
Just a couple of points.
You write: "[...] by an electronic musician I mean a person who needs fancy
effects and whose work relies more on manipulating sound rather than
actually playing notes and just getting them together. A modern electronic
composer heavily relies on chains of effects which allow him to work with
the sound in a flexible and imaginative way."
I don't share that point of view. Although I understand that the concept of
'electronic musician' is very ambiguous. Any 'musician' now-a-days has
to
deal with 'electronics' (computers)... In the same way the interpretation of
the definition of 'electronic music' spans from dance-like music with an
'electronic' flavour to what some would call 'electronic art music'.
In general I can see a point in being as extreme as considering only two
applications, but I find the 'they have nice polished gui, so they are cool'
approach a little simplistic. Nothing against polished guis :)
Lorenzo
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