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*yawn*

Wake me up when you folks are done...
Zzzzzzzzzz

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> From: 	konkuro
> Reply To: 	wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: 	Thursday, July 1, 2004 2:43 PM
> To: 	wiardgroup@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: 	[wiardgroup] Re: Review of "Electric Sound" by Joel Chadabe
> 
> Just as I was saddling up my pinto to ride into the sunset, you HAD 
> to go ahead and post that review.
> 
> Haven't read the book, but couldn't agree with the reviewer more. 
> Outside of the fact that his style is even more bilious than my own, 
> *jai pence,* the man is outright inspired. In a single post, he has 
> summed up my feeling about the electronic medium and the 
> academic "composeurs" (John Cage springs to mind) who have long taken 
> refuge in it. Had Grant offered this sooner, you guys would have been 
> spared a lot of suffering.  :-)
> 
> John L. wrote:
> 
> >For some samples of superlative Electro-Acoustic music, check out 
> the snippets of Rick Petersen's works at the following location:
> http://www.wavemakers-synth.com/wm_music.html. These get kudos from 
> many visitors to my web site.<
> 
> Anybody who hasn't heard these pieces should unplug his Wogglebug(TM) 
> right now and hightail it to John's excellent site for a listen. I 
> consider these to be the best synth demos on the net. 
> 
> Grant wrote:
> 
> >Electronic music equipment designers have created a box of
> paints so enormous that you can't lift the lid anymore.<
> 
> This is another good one. Somebody needs to write a Book of 
> Richterian Quotations.
> 
> Hmmmmm... Could "Grant's Paintbox" become the next "Schrodinger's 
> Cat?"  :-)
> 
> There is nothing so limiting as "infinite possibilities."  When you 
> think about it, infinity is as good as zero.  That's a big reason I 
> have always preferred analog synths to digital synths. The 
> limitations they impose give you a framework in which to work. It's 
> like poetry. Forms such as sonnets, sestinas and haiku free the 
> writer by forcing him to conform to the metrical expectations of the 
> reader.  "Blank verse," on the other hand, is simply a paragraph 
> arranged in an amusing way (is it any wonder that the worst poetry 
> invariably falls into this ubiquitous category?). 
> 
> It is prudence to remember that great painters need only a few colors 
> to create masterpieces. They have no need of crayons marked "flesh 
> tone." So it is with analog synths. Bells, whistles and gewgaws only 
> clutter up the paintbox. The greatest freedom lies in limitation.
> 
> johnm
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