[NewMusic] game soundtracks

[weasel walter]

as my final statement before leaving the country for a month . . . 

ya just can't fight progress. if one becomes obsolete due to changes in
reality, that's the way it is. i don't believe that a computer program
like cope's is any real threat to serious music and it's makers. 

in terms of creating music, like henry rollins said, "you either do it or
you don't. the world doesn't care either way." i believe this statement.
perhaps a program like this will change the motivations and outcome of
music, but ultimately there will be some sort of equilibrium. perhaps a
lot of musicians will find musicmaking to be a superfluous task and take
up other pursuits . . . this could be a positive thing. we need more
doctors, not musicians. 

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On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 09:32:58 -0800 (PST) Jon Raskin <jon_raskin at yahoo.com>
writes:
> Taking this in another direction. I watched a
> documentary about Big Daddy Roth the other day and he
> seems a good example of someone that used new
> technologies to create objects that work as commercial
> art and have influenced many "serious" visual artists.
>  He was outsider, Rat Fink was an assault on Mickey
> Mouse.  His work with fiberglass was innovative and
> the design work on cars was an attack on conformity of
> mass produced commodities.  He tapped into several sub
> cultures. As the first person to sell white t shirts
> with art work on created a global industry as well.