[NewMusic] new gizmo

[Peter Nyboer]

>  just feel like we're working really hard at making ourselves  
> obsolete.


(for those who didn't watch the video, the gizmo is software that can  
break up chords from source audio into pieces, letting you retune  
chords of digital audio, as you might a MIDI track.  For those who  
DID watch the video, anyone else think that was the first clean shirt  
the "inventor" had on in weeks??)

Given that it probably cost a gazillion dollars, its actual use will  
no doubt be a tool for a lot of mediocrity ("lipstick on the pig"),  
but the idea certainly opens up a lot of imagination in a free mind  
working in an open system.  While it may make industrial applications  
of music (which are often the only paying ones) less reliant on  
gestural craft, it could also enable good ideas to come to life from  
people who are not gesturally skilled.


Pete