From Shane Beers Sent Thu, Aug 6th 1998, 20:49
From Shane Beers Sent Thu, Aug 6th 1998, 20:49
> >oh, im not saying i dont like the records,im just saying that i do not think > >that she has anything to do with the releases outside of talking. > > but it's just a guess, right? you don't actually know a thing about > what went into the tracks, yeah? this opinion actually sounds quite > sexist to me. as if you're automatically assuming women have no > technical ability. which may or may /not/ be true in this particular > case! > > there is more to making the music than sticking a few patch leads in > and clicking up a row of bars in cubase. it's more than likely that > gescom / disjecta gave her technical assistance to create the sounds, > and program her arrangments in the tracks. not just being used as a > sample source - that's ridiculous! what you might not have realized is that her first 10" sounds a whole damn lot like gescom, and the second like disjecta. funny, but those people "assissted" in the productions. why is it that if you are a woman, you suddenly are allowed leinentcies in everything you do? im not a sexist person. if some guy named "mark" released records and they sounded like gescom with some guy saying "do the things that people say you cannot " i would be saying the same thing. mira calix is like if i was a record label honcho, and decided that i wanted to go play around for a day with autechre. yeah, i could make some cool stuff if they "helped" me out. shane and for pete's sake, women have techical ability. you damn neo-hippies and your wanna-be politically correct mentalities.