--- On Tue, 6/21/11, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca wrote:
From: Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca Subject: Re: [PD] Pd performance at TED To: "Jonathan Wilkes" jancsika@yahoo.com Cc: "Marco Donnarumma" devel@thesaddj.com, pd-list@iem.at Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 3:39 AM On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
--- On Sun, 6/19/11, Mathieu Bouchard matju@artengine.ca
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
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