22 Feb
2006
22 Feb
'06
8:28 a.m.
Kew-ew-ew-ewlllll...
Frank, but you've got to admit computer hardware events can be mapped to
other things than just MIDI notes, such as algorithms... yeh?
What I'm saying is it would be nice to find attract a lot of passionate
violin builders so passionate violinists don't have to learn so much
woodwork. A little is fine, but...
Personally I ended up making programming the way I make music, and
therefore reduced the gap between the two, but I still spend hours writing
the tools for writing this code, and the things the code drives, but this
is just because I am stubborn and won't use much prewritten code (jack and
liblo basically :)
But to go back to your analogy, I think computer programming is a little
different to woodwork, in that the machine can be seen as a medium or a
tool.
So for computer musicians who think about it in this way, learning to
write code will make them better *computer* musicians.
I think a nice compromise is PD (and I'm sure frank will agree ;) - as a
way to program in a form that many artistic people are comfortable with.
cheers,
dave