Hey Lorenzo! The point is not extreme. It deals with music which requires sound manipulation. Thanks to everybody's feedback, I might change the wording to better explain what I mean. As stated in the article, by electronic musician there I mean a musician who manipulates sound. Usually, it is ambient-kinda music, like this: http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projects&s=music&t=catalogue&num=5
If you listen to that, it is a whole class of electronic music. Having an app like Rakarrack is key for that kind of music - in fact, it is all about transforming sounds, there are no melodies in a strict sense of the word. Prior to Rakarrack I was on my way to installing Windows XP on another laptop for music. Now that plan is put to a halt. So my article is for a rather niche kind of composers, but it is a niche I want the devs to know about. L.V. On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Lorenzo <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > > Hey guys! > > Read it here: > > http://www.louigiverona.ru/?page=projects&s=writings&t=linux&a=linux_electronic > > Any comments are welcome. > > Just a couple of points. > > You write: "[...] by an electronic musician I mean a person who needs fancy > effects and whose work relies more on manipulating sound rather than > actually playing notes and just getting them together. A modern electronic > composer heavily relies on chains of effects which allow him to work with > the sound in a flexible and imaginative way." > > I don't share that point of view. Although I understand that the concept of > 'electronic musician' is very ambiguous. Any 'musician' now-a-days has to > deal with 'electronics' (computers)... In the same way the interpretation of > the definition of 'electronic music' spans from dance-like music with an > 'electronic' flavour to what some would call 'electronic art music'. > > In general I can see a point in being as extreme as considering only two > applications, but I find the 'they have nice polished gui, so they are cool' > approach a little simplistic. Nothing against polished guis :) > > Lorenzo > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev > >
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