11 Feb
2009
11 Feb
'09
6:25 p.m.
On Wednesday 11 February 2009 17:25:26 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:23:01PM -0800, Mark Knecht
wrote:
I am one such incompetent but that will not stop my from making my art as best
I can. And anything that can help me achieve my vision is welcome by me
within certain bounds that I set.
The poor guy asked a simple question and
you've chosen to put him or
his ideas down or to put him on the spot about what he's doing, why
he's doing it and the value he thinks he'll get from it. Why does this
have to be a problem? Let him make his music. If you don't like it be
polite and either make a constructive comment or remain quiet about
it.
Mark, this isn't about the 'poor guy' who originally
started this thread. I wrote: "... without wanting
to comment on the OP's musical abilities...", and in
a previous post: "... don't take this personally...".
I wrote that 'incompetence' is one (just one)
possible reason why people are wanting to use
technology to simplify music or the production
of it. And I don't think that statement is wrong.
It certainly isn't in the case of the sexy female
who can't sing but sells records only because
of her other qualities, and who can't finish
a song without automatic pitch correction.
IMHO, nothing of value is lost if such people
just would not sing at all. That is of course
an extreme example.
I am once who can't seem to hit the notes I want. I want real time pitch
correction for myself, not to pass my singing off as that of an accomplished
singer, but rather to help me in composing my music.
And yes, that same technology is occasionally
useful to save the work of a competent singer,
but that's not why it exists.
There are some kinds of music for which a
strictly constant beat is an essential feature.
I do not reject such music because of that, on
the contrary there is a lot of it that I do
appreciate very much. And there isn't anything
wrong with such music because of that regular
beat. Again on the contrary, almost all art is
in a way the result of some restrictions that
the artist imposes on his tools and his style.
The result is that other dimensions will emerge,
as is indeed the case with some of the music I
refer to.
But it doesn't follow that anyone who can run
Hydrogen becomes a instant musician.
Indeed, I may wish it so, but it isn't and perhaps that is for the best.
Yet some
people seem to believe this, often motivated
by some ideology of 'democratic' art.
If they are happy with the results they achieve fine. If they want to force
others to tell them how good their work is, that is a different matter.
The real value of such tools is the fact they
are available, not any automatic guarantee of
quality or relevance of what is produced using
them.
Kind regards,
all the best,
drew