You're right Jonathan, I completely agree. I really shouldn't post things until I've had breakfast. Or try to be light and ironic on topics that I believe strongly in, i.e. cynicism != useful in most situations.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.comwrote:
No, there really are music students out there looking at what they need in order to be successful, and when most of the voices around them are aggressively (and often ignorantly) suggesting only proprietary tools that cost lots of money, these students save up their meager resources in order to buy them. I'm talking about students who are probably already in debt from loans, and it's quite common that they max out on their technology budget and as a consequence are unable to attend a festival.
What's even worse is that these constrained options lead to a lot of those students downloading cracked copies of proprietary software (and the negative effects there usually manifest themselves more quickly and concretely).
-Jonathan
*From:* Richie Cyngler glitchpop@gmail.com *To:* Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com *Cc:* Ben Baker-Smith bbakersmith@gmail.com; pd list pd-list@iem.at *Sent:* Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:53 PM
*Subject:* Re: [PD] no pd?? WTF ????
Not a bad point... but, or more likely because they are supporting only those artists able to afford such things as expensive software, travel and food.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.comwrote:
I can't think of a better example of the vicious cycle of software lock-in than this. They don't have money to offer financial support, so they have to rely on the tools that they know, which are proprietary and expensive, thus making it even less likely that a composer would be able to afford to travel to the concert (because he/she had to spend money on either Max/MSP or Kyma to composer the piece in the first place).
-Jonathan
----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Baker-Smith bbakersmith@gmail.com To: pd list pd-list@iem.at Cc: Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 4:12 PM Subject: Re: [PD] no pd?? WTF ????
Hi list!
I got a more clear response from the organizers on this issue than anything I've seen in this thread so far - here it is:
Hi Ben,
thanks for your Interest in our Call.
We accepts only patches made with Kyma or Max/MSP due the fact we are
not
able to provide
financial support for the two selected composers. So it is possible
that
they will not be able to be in Milan for the concert.
To avoid technical issues we choose the plattforms we already use in
our
work or we are very familiar with.
This is the only reason. If the selected composer can assure us to be available for the concert
the
can be used any piece of software/hardware.
I hope this helps.
Many thanks
Federico Placidi
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-- Richie