26 Jul
2012
26 Jul
'12
10:12 p.m.
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:57 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Neil C Smith <neil(a)neilcsmith.net>
wrote:
On 26 July 2012 20:43, S. Massy <lists(a)wolfdream.ca> wrote:
The truth is that you are right :(. But it shouldn't be that way.
Regards,
Ralf
I often feel that we now have many
of the tools we've been dreaming up for the last century and
a half
but
are (most of us) too chicken to use them to their
full
potential and
prefer clinging to superannuated ways.
Perhaps many of those things we've been dreaming of have
turned out
not to be so interesting in reality! :)
i've probably used this quote before...
"tradition is a static defense against a chaotic community
and what would we gain by destroying it?" (annette peacock)
when i was 15 it seemed to me that breaking the rules was worth doing
for its own sake. now that i'm 48, i'm more interested in
understanding the rules, the history of the rules, the sociology of
the rules, the anthropology of the rules ... and only breaking them
when its clear that "the way we do things" is stupid, anachronistic or
just the freakish side effect of some historical event.
music (the ordering of sound in time, and perhaps space) is a
*culture* and doesn't really mean very much without a cultural
context. throwing away the yokes of technology-past is the dream of a
15 year old. embracing the rules and ignoring the ones that no longer
or never did make sense - that's how culture (and music) moves
forward.