--- On Tue, 6/21/11, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED > To: "Jonathan Wilkes" <[email protected]> > Cc: "Marco Donnarumma" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 3:39 AM > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Jonathan Wilkes > wrote: > > --- On Sun, 6/19/11, Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> What's a « technological parody » ? > > > > It's where you take something like a modern digital > computer and do DSP by using an interface modeled after 30 > year-old analog audio equipment. > > Therefore Pd is a technological parody ? The interface (GUI) is. Mainly in the sense of a musical parody, as if the influence of the analog synthesizer is there mainly to amuse the user, to divert him/her from the drudgery of computer music orthodoxy. The point is the term on it's own doesn't hold a value judgment. It'd be like judging Bach's Prelude in C from WTC, Book I by calling it a series of ascending arpeggios. Does that mean one thinks it's simplistic? Deceivingly simple? Boring? Elegant? Elegantly boring? Hiding an implicit judgment inside a truism is lazy discourse. -Jonathan > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > | Mathieu Bouchard ---- tél: +1.514.383.3801 ---- > Villeray, Montréal, QC > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
