EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 08-03-2003, Nick Mulder wrote:

>  > I suppose you think that since you're teaching at the conservatory,
>>  you are entitled to belittle someone who disagrees with you? 
>
>No, you're wrong again.
>
>I suppose I can toy a bit with a person who starts a personal flame
>without actually knowing his stuff and tries to save his face.

I don't start a personal flame.  I simply responded to the kind of 
argument I've heardnumerous times from 20-year olds who use prefab 
loops and think they make great music because their music is 
sample-accurate.

If you meant it in a different way than that (which apparently is the 
case) then I apologize.  I still think then though that the original 
statement needs a lot of ifs and buts and clarification and nuance. 
As a conservatory teacher, you surely agree with the fact that 
musical emotion is a matter of harmony, melody _and_ timing, and not 
just timing alone -- and that's the basic idea to which I responded.
Hell, you can play a 3-chord top-40 tune with exact timing and have 
no emotion at all, and even if you play Bach in a somewhat sloppy 
way, the emotion is still there -- too strong to be killed by sloppy 
playing.

>Ventje, je zit er gewoon falikant naast en bent te belazerd het toe te
>geven. Dat valt erg op hoor.
>[...]

Offending me in a language that hardly anyone can read in a public 
international forum is not what I would call polite.  But that's 
probably just me.

-- 
Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@...>
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