Hallo,
Mathieu Bouchard hat gesagt: // Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
There are other activities part of traditional music-making, namely:
composing music, writing music, reading music, improvising music (in your head or live), following a conductor, being the conductor, mixing the
music, recording the music, postproduction, copy, distribution, playing
the record, remembering a tune, building the instruments, building any
musical tool, ... What we're experiencing nowadays is that more activities can be reconfigured. Already the player-pianos played a score... or is it the score that played the piano? what is sure, is that there was no musician playing it live, and yet it was still music. Nowadays you can make all sorts of hybrids between all of the above. This causes our vocabulary (and assumptions about that vocabulary) to become quite inadequate. So, increasingly, to the question "is it a musical
instrument?" there is hesitation: yes, no, uh, maybe, sort of, it depends what you mean by... etc.
These are interesting points for us at RjDj, too. One or our PR claims is that RjDj (== Pd on phones) is about "music as software and software as music". RjDj is not so much about "iPhone instruments" like portable 303 clones (although it can be used as that), instead we're trying to reach a general music lover's audience (rather successfully so far) and make it interested in music that is generated in realtime, changes while being listened to and makes use of your environment (sound, movements, GPS, ...).
It's really tricky to communicate this and OTOH we also have to work on creating some kind of distribution channel for this softwaremusic, build the higher-level tools etc. We work with "traditional musicians" like Carl Craig who maybe use hardware instruments and generally are accustomed to linear composition software like Logic. They need to be "retrained" quite a bit for this non-linear music (it's easier with the "DJ crowd" and very easy for Max users). We have to mix and postproduce live on the phone, build the instruments (rj-library), make the music follow a non-musical conductor, be the conductor, and so on. So all this stuff you mentioned is in action at RjDj - Pd users of course are familiar with this already - and they are very welcome to join.
Ciao
Frank