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Re: Review of "Electric Sound" by Joel Chadabe

2004-07-01 by grantrichter2001

> Grant, is that you trolling... :-)
> 

Guilty as charged.

However the reviewer raises an interesting point. To use an 
analogy of visual painting.

Electronic music equipment designers have created a box of 
paints so enormous that you can't lift the lid anymore.

Or, if you can get the lid off, the box is big enough to get lost 
inside.

The point I see him making is that instrument design has 
progress far faster than the capacity to apply it musically. This is 
what I mean about "designs for Martians". I know mathematically 
that certain designs have application for music generation.

But we haven't begun to understand how to apply the simplest 
ADSR from the 60's, much less advanced designs like a MARF.

The designers of the 60's were designing for a future that has 
not occured yet, and I am designing for a future that may never 
occur at all.

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