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[Martin Naef]

Peter

Peter Korsten wrote:
> What's this obsession with 'new interfaces'? Does is make *music* 
> better? Isn't music nothing more that putting notes, pauses and - let's 
> be generous - sound effects in a certain order?

I think you're missing an extremely important point: Expressivity. What 
you describe is how music is written on a sheet of paper. Play it 
exactly as written, and it will be soulless (anybody else here collected 
general midi files at some point in their life?)

So one very important part of the interpretation of these notes, pauses 
and sound effects is the performance. Traditional instruments are 
extremely expressive because of the nuances and the very intimate 
control that is possible. Electronic instruments, however, are still 
essentially stuck with the keyboard+slider input metaphor that works for 
some sounds, but doesn't cover a very wide range. Until we find new 
interfaces, electronic instruments will never be more than a piano with 
a strange sound.

Mind you, I'm not easily excited by yet another noise source (the 
example shown is rather boring in my opinion), but unless we experiment 
in all different directions, electronic instruments will never mature.

Bye
Martin

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