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a couple of articles about the changing mature of music production.
you need to register to get at the NY Times, but if anyone is
interested, I could post the pages to this list. I'll quote a
few passages that might incite some people on the commie lists ;-)
TECHNOLOGY HEADLINES
The New York Times on the Web
Sunday, February 11, 2001
Strike the Band: Pop Music Without Musicians
More and more pop music is created not by conventional
musicianship by using computerized tools to stitch together
prerecorded sounds.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/technology/11SCHE.html
The music business has finally figured out how
to do without musicians, those pesky varmints.
Music making is sociable. Not only is the digital musician
physically isolated, peering into a computer screen in his
home studio, but worse, he's also spiritually isolated.
Even practicing in a room alone, the real- time musician is
in conversation. The sociologist and pianist David Sudnow,
in his 1978 book "The Ways of the Hand" (Harvard University
Press), described his breakthrough from rote playing to impro-
vising. Alone, as usual, at his piano, Mr. Sudnow wrote, he
found himself "counting off the time with a care I had never
taken before ... a care for the others with whom I would have
been coordinating my moves, for that bass player and drummer
who were never around."
The great guitarist Ry Cooder once put it this way: "Music
gives you radar sensitivity to people because you closely
associate with others as you play your music." Programmers
never develop this sociability, this magical fluency in a
nonverbal language - they don't need it; they've never been
challenged by the requirements of real time music making.
Musicians don't like to admit it, but computer music makes
you lazy.
Going the Way of the Victrola
The home computer revolution may soon chalk up another casualty: the
recording studio -- that shrine where many a music legend has been born.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/11/technology/11WAGE.html
Of course, saving money is behind this latest trend to mothball
the recording studio. In addition to its "state of the art"
recording equipment, a good recording studio also requires
musicians, engineers, secretaries and janitors, not to mention
interior decorators, limousine service and snacks for hungry
artists, all of which means additional expense.
Now look at the home computer.
