11 Dec
2007
11 Dec
'07
5:50 p.m.
Please! This is really very rude. It also contains many statements that
would be hotly contested by academics in such fields as art history and
performance theory. It is probably high time you acquainted yourself
with the work of the Portsmouth Sinfonia
<http://www.portsmouthsinfonia.com/media/sundaytimes.html>.
As for school theatre productions, I can safely say that my son's grade
1 class play was far more fascinating and conceptually intriguing than
most of the professional theatre I have had to endure in recent years.
I've been asking myself how grown-ups might be able to generate the same
kind of distracted spacedoutness. Maybe it's completely impossible. Pity.
bradley newton haug wrote:
you can try all you want to 'fix it in the mix' but you can't polish a
turd. If you can't play, no engineering on the planet will save you.
In your opinion, of course. My own opinion is that production and
arrangement are more important to the impact of a piece than the
skill of its players, with composition being the most important of
all. You'll say I'm wrong, and you will be wrong.
watch a high school shakespeare rendition sometime.
But neither of our opinions matter to people who are looking at Linux
audio tools and finding them lacking. Saying "That feature that I've
never heard of sucks, and if you use it, your style of music sucks"
doesn't come off as an indictment of commercialism so much as it
resembles sour grapes.
if you have to step input your music and rely on groove quant to make
it sound
'real' you are speaking from a massive musical disadvantage. We've
been making music
for tens of thousands of years, it seems to me you're the one blaming
your tools.
If you're happy with Linux audio being as limited as a glorified tape
recorder, that's fine, but some of us have higher ambitions.
again, if you can't record music with a 'record' and 'stop' button.
Nothing can really help you.
Can linux replace a windows or OSX rig that a schmuck can load up,
slap some loops on, use factory presets on
their softsynths and press a magic button to fix their amateurish
keyboard noodlings?
no
can linux be used to make music? yes
-bradley newton haug