4 Nov
2010
4 Nov
'10
5:24 p.m.
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 11:13:05 -0400
drew Roberts <zotz(a)100jamz.com> wrote:
Is it? I find them intimately connected. Music is a language and
everything that applies to learning to communicate with words and
speech can be transferred to learning to communicate thorough music.
... but I do understand your point.
As did my daughter, but she wasn't writing a phd thesis nor an opera.
Indeed.
And yet I think we often have a fear of this and think it might give
someone a mastery over the other side. It is as if e fear excellent
voice recognition software will let anyone write the next great
novel. Probably mostly when we are not thinking clearly but the fear
seems to find expression often enough.
true, but also a bit of jealousy, no? Why should someone with no
musical skills other than the ability to operate computer software be
able to travel the same path as a someone trained for decades?
but I digress...
David
On Thursday 04 November 2010 10:43:12 you wrote:
Even still, it isn't simply learning how to write and my blurb may
have focused to much on that. Nevertheless, you can't dictate a novel if
you don't know the words or how to use them correctly.
Hi Drew,
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:12:57 -0400
drew Roberts <zotz(a)100jamz.com> wrote:
I don't agree with this but let's remove even that and give them a
personal recorder and a secretary to transcribe what they have
written. So, the pencil mastery is no longer needed. On Wednesday 03 November 2010 19:28:29 Leigh Dyer
wrote:
I see that analogy as very fitting but the conclusion as simply
wrong. A novelist or poet does, indeed, spend years (a lifetime
even) gaining a mastery of not only the "pencil", I don't think there's any point worrying
about music production
getting "too easy" or "too accessible" -- the ship probably
sailed on that when Tascam released the Portastudio, or when
Dave Smith and friends created MIDI. People have been making
trite music with the best equipment money can by for years, and
others have been making interesting music with toys and junk
for just as long. If this helps people express musical ideas
that they'd been unable to express beforehand, then that's
fantastic.
To me, one of the problems comes down to the split between musical
appreciation and creation and the technical abilities needed to
perform what is imagined / conceived.
Imagine if a novelist or poet had to practice for years to gain
mastery over the pencil or keyboard in the same way a musician
has to practice to gain mastery over their instrument. but also the words and sentence
structure.
But this is more parallel to the music side of things and not the
mastery of the instrument side of things surely? My 8-year old daughter will attest to the
difficulty
involved and the years it takes to master moving her writing
instrument to produce the correct glyph--not to mention putting all
those glyphs together to form words, sentences and ultimately a
coherent story that expresses her intent.
Well, my son had enough facility with the crayon to make letters from
a very early age.
And again, isn't the rest more on the music side of things as I
mention above?
Again, I understand what you are talking about.
Tech that makes it easier to produce what is
conceived are no more
dangerous to good music than is to move to a pencil from a stone
chisel and hammer.
This is agree with wholeheartedly.