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gepr on
Jan 20, 2021; 2:52pm
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Ha! I was in the middle of a post saying that you were saying the same thing in different words. Circuit bending is the ultimate instrument creation abuse. It feels similar to phosphenes. But I'm also fond of rendering various (large) programs as audio in Audacity. A bit like audializing other serialized information like DNA.
On 1/20/21 6:48 AM, jon zingale wrote:
> ps. And just to be clear, I am agreeing with you.
On 1/20/21 6:37 AM, jon zingale wrote:
> Perhaps. Though I do find it sad that synthesizer design (for instance) so
> quickly converged onto piano-like interfaces and the occasional switch pad.
> For a moment there in the 70s and 80s, thanks to explorative minds of people
> like the writers of ElectroNotes, there was the possibility of something
> more and not simply by novelty. I would often enjoy flipping through the
> journal and reading about reeded interfaces with nonlinear regimes and ideas
> that seemed to get closer to the heart of what it means to be an instrument.
> Wrestling and smacking the body of an acoustic instrument is nothing like
> wrestling and smacking the body of a Casio keyboard.
On 1/19/21 5:23 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> I like this common aspect of technology. Not that it ought to be obvious like an iPhone (supposedly) but that it is just an artifact of nature and so preconceived intent is arbitrary. It does whatever it does and if you trust a claim, you don’t really know it, you just believe. Novelty arises from misuse.
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