From Zenon M. Feszczak Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 15:03
From Zenon M. Feszczak Sent Wed, May 20th 1998, 15:03
At 1:04 PM +0800 5/20/98, you wrote: >I get offended by people that think music is somehow worth less if it is >entirely programmed. At the end of the day all that should matter is >what it sounds like. > Certainly debatable. I certainly evaluate music both by the end result and the process of creation. In my view, the process is part of the finished work - potentially increasing or decreasing the appreciation of the final product. If I found out that the Rachmaninov concerto to which I was listening was in fact sequenced, it would change my perception for the worse. Then again, if I found out that a supposedly algorithmic piece of music was in fact improvised live or composed fully on paper, that would also change my perception. For the same reason, an original and a forgery of an artwork are valued differently even if the final aesthetic products are indistinguishable. 3