more music made with webcam ..

[Paul Maddox]

Martin,

> I don't believe you here. You might not like every single step of the
> process (I'm sure you don't particularly enjoy practising scales on the
> bass either, and neither do you fancy cleaning up after your dog), but
> if building the synth as a whole doesn't give you any great
> satisfaction, I seriously can't understand why you built any in the
> first place...

Hmmm, I guess it depends on your definition of fun and satisfaction :-)

> I think it's at least as great as our latest tracks. We're quite happy
> to share them here, congratulate ourselves and be proud. In the grand
> scheme of things, 99% of our stuff is totally dispensible, because only
> a handful of people ever hear it and, and even fewer will remember it
> next year. Same thing with that interface: It won't be the great break-
> through, only a handful of geeks on the internet will ever see it. Yet
> he or she has as much bragging rights as we do with the things we build
> or compose. Why are we suddenly so bloody critical about somebody's
> creative output?

Good point.
I'm not being critical, I just want to understand why.

> That it can be done by a hobbyist? And that it might inspire somebody
> else to go and build something that indeed advances the field? Isn't
> that enough?

Yep, that's a good answer, I couldn't see that before.

Paul