[NewMusic] Slaves to off-the-shelf software?

[Sarah - 21 Grand]

Travis wrote:
but at the same time, hasn't there always been generic,
homogenous-sounding commodity-music/video/etcetcetc???

- yes, going back to those cave paintings at Lescaux.

Why is it suddenly so vogue to blame the technology and the software for
creating mundane compo-slop?

- because more people are making it. Because the technology and the software
are even more accessible now than ever, so there is more of it. I think
there's this additional assumption based on the notion that computers allow
for so many more variations and options that are widely different from one
another, and thus are a "blanker" slate than an acoustic instrument.

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