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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Orchestrion becomes self-aware and replicates

2010-10-10 by Mike Dickson

Why do you say that?

I think he's about as wrong as it's possible to get.

On 10/10/2010 02:44, fdoddy@aol.com wrote:
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> Woah!  Yo dog!  You been hangin' wit Mike D ?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sat, Oct 9, 2010 8:14 pm
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Orchestrion becomes self-aware 
> and replicates
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> I think sloppy suits music composed after Bach but not before. Apart 
> from Gould and Tureck some of my favourite Bach is direct midi output, 
> more often than not the performer and their interpretation just get in 
> the way, music written after Bach is so bereft of ideas that you need 
> a "performance" from the player just to cover up the vacuum at the 
> heart of the music.
>
> Mark
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