[sdiy] MIDI isn't musical : Flame bait?

[matti]

On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Magnus Danielson wrote:

> From: Don Tillman <don at till.com>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] MIDI isn't musical : Flame bait?
> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 10:17:04 -0800
>
> >    Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 11:17:36 +0000
> >    From: David Hughes <dhughes at globalnet.co.uk>
> >
> >    Don Tillman <don at till.com> wrote :
> >    > Because MIDI is unmusical.
> >
> >    Oh, this is complete rubbish! This must be flame bait!
> >    Don, are you *really* serious?
> >
> > Dead serious.
> >
> > Midi is a very limited protocol and just not capable of representing
> > most musical events; say, the intro to Jimi Hendrix' "Voodoo Chile"
> > or a John Coltrane sax solo.
> >
*snip*

take a listen to some nitzer ebb. that's all MIDI, and it's got that
nitzer ebb quality that you just _know_ it's nitzer ebb one iteration of
the bassline in. and yes, it is very mechanical.

enjoy


-
you stupid vulgar greedy american death-sucker
some trillions of years ago a sloppy a sloppy dirty giant flicked grease
from his fingers
one of those gobs of grease is our universe on the way to the floor
*splat*