[NewMusic] acoustic vs. electronic

[kristin miltner]

i wanna do this too, before too many people answer and color my opinion.
i will probably be embarrassed too.

1. FM synth
2. Ring mod
3. the beginning sounds granular but then it does this resonating feedback
thing later...don't know
4. I am guessing this is actually acoustic flute, but affected toward the
end by really really slow (low frequency) ring mod
5. that sounds like reverbed acoustic metal being bowed to me, but i have
some soft synths in Logic that produce this kind of stuff.
6. sounds like a bunch of different things. first changing the carrier
freqency of FM synth but keeping the harmonicity the same, then in the
middle, maybe a synth that's tracking some pitches in the sample and
following them with a sine (sounds just like a plugin called MDA tracker and
i think that's what it does; it always produces these sine-y bouncy wacky
results), then after the record scratch it sounds like additive synth
incorporating a noise generator?

k

On 1/9/07, Barry Threw <bthrew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not a useful analogy.  These are useful for completely different purposes.
>
> I did not say that no instruments with acoustical or mechanical
> functions will ever be produced after a certain point.  What I did say
> is that all the instruments that we use now will be obsolete.  There
> will come a time when it will be hard to find a widely used instrument
> with no electronic components.  This is not to say that older
> instruments will not function, and be used, but they will be a niche
> fetish item...just like paper printed books are becoming a fetish item
> today.
>
> Just like both the current paradigms of bicycle and car will be pushed
> out of usage to make way for updated models using the technology of the
> time.
>
> I imagine everyone thought we would be using the steam engine for
> everything at one point too.  And I'm sorry for all you harpsichord
> players out there.
>
> b
>
> Chris Broderick wrote:
> > Just like the automobile has made the bicycle
> > obsolete.
> >
> > -Chris
> >
> >
> > --- Barry Threw <bthrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The tide
> >> of technological innovation is something that can't
> >> be stopped, and it
> >> will eventually push all the instruments that all of
> >> us hold dear into
> >> obsolesce.
> >
> >
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