On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Malte Steiner wrote:
The idea of unique genius? Access to technology and the creation process should be as easy as possible so nothing is in the way,
Yes. That's why standards of recording are currently raising in order to justify high-end equipment. If the rich musicians can't show off their high-end equipment around because everyone's got high-end, then they won't get all the attention that they think that they deserve. Don't you think it'll get harder to get funding for projects that don't use HDTV resolution and/or 8.1 ambisonics at 24-bit 192 kHz ?
See also Miller's talk "Giving an Engineer a Hammerfall". (kidding)
but I can understand your fear of painting by numbers music of so called creatives.
In the future it will get easier to come up with original stuff using just "paint-by-numbers" music, but this advantage of technology won't be used much in mainstream music because originality isn't much valued there.
But I have the high hopes that audience is mature enough to recognize a good work from a boring one (hence the crisis of the music/film industry ???).
The difference between a good work and a boring work lies in the expectations that one has vis-à-vis the music, and hence what one pays attention to in the music.
For me the most important thing is a good idea, not a complicated technique (thats so 90s :)
Non non non, the most important thing is a _simplistic_ technique! First, spend all of your energy on the grant request paperwork. _That's_ what's important: that's what you get your paycheck for!
I know some people talking about a crisis in media arts but I think it is the most exciting times right now.
What was it like, to make movies in the 1910's?
No, you got some good points. Look at the VSTi plugin market, loads of analogue emulations instead creating new sounds with the software possibilities, its incredible. But a TB303 plugin sells better, I learned it the hard way.
It's because originality is not valued by the mainstream.
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