[sdiy] Synth UI [was: Modular - sound or song]

[Samppa Tolvanen]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Grant Richter <grichter at asapnet.net> wrote:
> The debate that the Muses are best served by by the unlimited potential of
> dadaist and surrealist technique was first proposed in the 1910s and 1920s.
> Latter scholars with with the Workshops for Potential Media have proposed
> that the actual artistic act is the is the overcoming of the restraints
> which are inherent to any aritistic media.
>

Basically Stravinsky used this same instrument as Mozart did. The
technology didn't change, what did? The rules.

> The debate can only go on for centuries as each technological advance brings
> with it a hidden black bag full of assumption about what "no on sensible
> person will ever want to do with the technology'. But the black bags have a
> way of unfolding while being opened, revealing even more artistic "tricks"
> the artist may find essential to make a complete artistic statement.
>

IT's ok by me. That statement. It's a dead idea already - Why would
anybody with artistic statement go beyond anything that has settled.
That would be stupid.

> My guess is the interactive change and and evolutionary changes will product
> astonishing results for centuries to come.
>

It was all sarcasm!

Samppa