[NewMusic] acoustic vs. electronic

[Damon Smith]

A good flute player, let's say Robert Dick, will just process the flute 
with his mouth. No electronics needed.
On Jan 9, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Barry Threw wrote:

> Sure.  That would be the first stages of a progression in the evolution
> of the flute in a certain direction.  Eventually everything will
> probably shrink, so that the flute will have the processing all built
> in, no "computer" necessary.   If we want to talk about obsolete
> technologies still in use, MIDI goes right up there on the list.
>
> kristin miltner wrote:
>> hybrid like a violin with pedals? or a flute with pickups, either 
>> midi or
>> signal, that run to a computer for processing?
>>
>> On 1/9/07, Barry Threw <bthrew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> no way man, i'm with jacob. there are certain things acoustic
>>> instruments
>>>> can do that electronics just can't, and vice versa
>>> Today, or in theory?  What about hybrid instruments that extend upon
>>> traditional?
>>>
>>> b
>>>
>>> kristin miltner wrote:
>>> . even though it is the
>>>> option for night clubs to have DJs now instead of live music, there 
>>>> are
>>> also
>>>> plenty of people who specialize in electroacoustics spending way too
>>> much
>>>> time trying to physically and sonically emulate/simulate a real 
>>>> violin,
>>> or
>>>> trumpet, etc... the 'real' acoustic instrument is still the model.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (i always think, why not just make your computer sound like 
>>>> something
>>> else
>>>> entirely different with its own character, and then also play an 
>>>> actual
>>>> violin or trumpet)
>>>>
>>>> k
>>>>
>>>> On 1/9/07, Chris Broderick <elsuperfantastico at yahoo.com> 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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