Elektron Musical Instruments

>>Hrm... It isn't the first time I've heard it on the list, re why
>>Elektron should be thanking/praising Autechre et al, but I have to say
>>-- it really should be the other way around. Autechre wouldn't exist
>>without the gear. The reverse is not true.

> What are you saying?

(Fwiw I own every Ae release, duplicates on unopened vinyl, multiple 
Gescom minidiscs, etc, so whomever has me on their 'most-hated infidel' 
list, you can take me off now. ;*  Whoever said 'burn', that was truly 
funny.)

I was just outlouding about process or patterns or whatever; 
materializing gear from concepts is the precursor to music making. It's 
like the same idea gets made, but in different media, with the music 
being composed of reflections of every logical decision the engineers 
made while building the gear. Mostly, this is because you can't create 
something that's isn't creatable, whether it is with a rock and stick or 
some math that eventually causes your speakers to vibrate. You could say 
something like the 303 couldn't avoid its destiny because of the 
decisions it was composed of, despite how it was marketed. Demonstration 
is not a prerequisite to existence. One could say that things come into 
existence because there are people willing to pay in order to 
demonstrate what they can do, but still -- if the hardware doesn't have 
'the idea' neither can we show that it does.

Mark