(idm) Re: technique / copyright

From H James Harkins
Sent Thu, May 21st 1998, 03:16

Kent said:

>Any more, I'm most comfortable cutting and pasting digital audio to
>do my programming.  Now that's BELOW step time MIDI recording -- it's
>like writing music with tweezers and a microscope.  Perhaps it's some
>reflection on my essential lameness that I like stuff better when I put
>it together without hearing it, than when I play it in.

Interesting how things come full circle... this is rather like a sanitized
version of good old-fashioned musique concrete techniques, isn't it?
"tweezers and a microscope." For myself, I'm quite content with my
sequencer...

re: "Home taping is killing the music industry"... wasn't it the Dead
Kennedys who printed that on side B of a tape of theirs, followed by:
"...we left this side blank so you can help"? Fabulous.
                J

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