11 Dec
2007
11 Dec
'07
6:19 p.m.
Contest them then. Hand-waving, general statements and some bizzare
paragraph about your son does nothing to support your stance.
On Dec 11, 2007 10:50 PM, Robert Persson <ireneshusband(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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