[sdiy] Taking a Step towards - - --((FUTURE-PREDICTIONS))-- - -

[Paul Maddox]

JB,

> What about hybrid systems ?

yes, a good point.. Many of tadys manufacturers are trying this.
The Waldorf Q+ for example, the Wadlof FilterBank, to mention just two.

> I mean : not only digital programing & control of modulars,
> but REAL (and innovative) hybrid systems :
> - analogue tweaking of FFT
> - NN in vocoders and freq analyzers
> - granular freq shifters
> - etc etc

mostly because the market doesn't want them..
The market seems to be pandering to 17 year old kids who want to make
'banging choons' in the bedroom, they go out and spend their first months
sallery on a synth and want to become famous overnight..

> Honnestly I'm not sure that the ideas for new electronic
> instruments will arise while listening to TD's "Ricochet"...

agreed..
Most of the stuff Ive been listening to of late has been Plastikmand,
System7 and some Ambient Dub.
I've not listend to TD for a long time.
The last KS album I listened to was 'contemporary works VOL1'.

> As I'm aging, I'm wondering more & more if the problem
> of our time (at least in the music domain) isn't the lack of
> great and challenging musical thought... As years go by,
> I'm really thinking that such a musical thought could build
> a solid backbone for more musical adventures & innovations,
> and thus new engineering challenges in instrument design...

The problem is, music is now an industry, more than ever before, its about
profit and loss.
This is starting to rub off on the instrument designers and manufacturers,
and instead of inventing new things, they have to make what will sell..

> But I'm afraid that the only backbone in today's electronic
> music is only "boom boom boom"... Did anyone notice that
> on the web, or at 2nd hand records fairs, or in mags about
> techno, "electronic music" refers ONLY to techno these days ?

yeah, that sucks.

> When I was student at IRCAM in the early 80's, I remember
> attending a couple of lectures / meetings during which Boulez
> kept repeating that electronic / synth / computer sounds without
> a strong musical thought / theory are just empty gimmicks...

you lucky git!
I'd love to go there..

> PS : did I drive this thread totally OT ?

nope ;-)

Paul