3 Aug
2007
3 Aug
'07
9:32 p.m.
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 18:40 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
On 8/3/07, Paul Davis
<paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
internet,
my point is that people have many more immediate distractions available
to them today without ever leaving their own homes. the motivation to
meet people with *any* other interests gets reduced somewhat when you
can happily keep the old synapses firing away by yourself.
is that people with similar non-mainstream
interests can
find each
other.
if they can be bothered, between playing WoW/guitar
hero/katamari,
texting friends on their phones, and popping yet another DVD
in one of
the many players at home.
Now that's ridiculously insulting and unnecessary. I don't see any
difference between wasting time with technology and wasting time
without it. If the millions of people playing WoW et al don't stop
the people who create great music as a result of the internet ( e.g.
having access to free software as a result of the internet, learning
how to use granular synthesis as a result of the internet, studying
psychoacoustics as a result of the internet), then who cares?
its nothing to do with the quality of the art. its to do with
the social
role of art in bringing together artists and audiences in
varuous
combinations.
No, Elton was talking about the quality of the art. Did you read what
he said?
"Instead they sit at home and make their own records, which is
sometimes OK but it doesn't bode well for long-term artistic vision."
If the internet was shut down, he says, "I'm sure, as far as music
goes, it would be much more interesting than it is today."
And he's wrong.
i believe that his point is that without the social interaction the
quality of the music/art suffers. and i think he's right about that, but
probably wrong about the magnitude of the effect.
--p