3 Apr
2007
3 Apr
'07
3:13 p.m.
Robin Gareus wrote:
david wrote:
There are people developing sensors for the hands/fingers that can read
motion in three dimensions and map that to software controllers, to
produce a playable air-guitar. ;-)
IMO, laptops, computer keyboards, etc, are very thin and unexpressive
replacements for the rich interfaces that we know as real musical
instruments - guitars, violins, horns, etc. Human hands and fingers,
human breath control, have been developed and refined for thousands of
years. Computer user interfaces have a long ways to do to develop that
degree of expressiveness.
--
David
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Ken Restivo wrote:
taste wise I quite agree - but as for the "hip" instrument in the
music-scene: "the last guitar solo the world wanted to hear was in
Purple Rain" (dunno whom I'm actually quoting; some piano teacher said
that to keep guitarists focused on chord&melody: "licks are for
air-guitar")
I guess the air-guitar will have a a good chance for a come-back once
laptops are out of style ;) The Laptop is the Turntable of the 21st Century.
(The turntable of course supplanted the guitar sometime around the
1990's.)
Not for me. Disco and its present descendants SUCKS! ;-)