[NewMusic] acoustic vs. electronic

[Damon Smith]

Well, most of the sound possibilities your computer has involve pretty 
bad taste, once you get down to material that it actually interesting 
it is just as limited.

Damon

On Jan 9, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Barry Threw wrote:

> Yeah, I understand where you are coming from.  And I agree with the
> sentiment.
>
> But what I was referring to was a problem I have many times when
> building instruments.  You have to define the limitations.  You have to
> create something elegant that has a wide range of sounds but yet has a
> usable interface.
>
> Your bass has a wide (infinite?) range of sounds, however, it would be
> hard to argue that the range of sounds I can get with my computer isn't
> larger.  This isn't necessarily good, its actually a huge problem for
> me.  This is the endearing part of the limitations of acoustic
> instruments to which I was referring.
>
> I guess perhaps it is better phrased: acoustic instruments have
> developed over years, and this kind of maturity is hard to reproduce
> when designing a new instrument from scratch.
>
> b
>
>
> Damon Smith wrote:
>> On Jan 9, 2007, at 9:41 PM, Barry Threw wrote:
>>
>>> I like it that acoustic instruments have limitations.  This gives 
>>> them
>>> an elegance and grace and makes them manageable.
>>
>> - I don't really agree that they do. Just like a computer they depend
>> on your creativity and imagination. Technical progress on acoustic
>> instruments has never slowed down.
>>
>> Damon
>>
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