[gmpi] Re: 3.15 MIDI
- From: "Koen Tanghe" <koen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 01:36:51 +0200
I am 100% behind this point of view (and I'm not even a composer myself). It
couldn't have been said better.
Koen
On Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:39 PM [GMT+1=CET],
gogins@xxxxxxxxxxxx <xxxgogins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Who said all music is humanly performed? Are you still living in the
> twentieth century? Most music these days is assembled using software.
> There is not and should not be a limit on number of voices. Haven't you
> ever heard of granular synthesis? Are we supposed to outlaw this? Maybe
> you should only use triads, no 7ths and certainly no flat ninths. Or
> maybe you should stick to 4/4 time since that's good enough for 7/8 of
> music. Is that OK with you?
>
> Obviously I do now use software since I long ago discovered MIDI was
> inadequate. However, I would certainly prefer to be able to use a widely
> accepted, commercially supported protocol. I currently work in the Csound
> community where this kind of thing is perfectly routine, and everyone
> already understands these issue; but it's a small community, with a small
> output of music. I'd prefer to be part of a bigger community with more
> resources and a larger output of music -- if I don't have to give up
> capabilities.
>
> As I said before, I AM A COMPOSER AND I AM THE ONE WHO DECIDES WHAT IS
> ADEQUATE. I do not decide this as a programmer -- which I also am -- but
> as a musician. It is musicians who decide what is music.
>
> If two musicians disagree, then the only definition of music that is valid
> is one that has room for both of them.
>
> You may not understand this, but by denying technical validity to my
> musical requirements you are saying it's fine with you if my instruments
> are crippled. If there's no technical ability to give me what I want,
> that's OK; but we do have the ability, so it's not OK!
>
> It is not nice, it is not polite, and it will not work to deprecate
> someone's work or tools because it is "not normal" or "unusual". I'm not
> trying to cripple your tools, on the contrary I am actively working to
> improve them, but you are trying to cripple mine for no technical reason,
> which has the effect of marginalizing me. Get it?
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