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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:08:20 PST
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- From: metlay <metlay@NETCOM.COM>
- Subject: Re: PHIL COMP
- Comments: To: EMUSIC-L@american.edu
- In-Reply-To: <9212212250.AA21129@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu>; from "Mark Simon"
- at Dec 21, 92 5:26 pm
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- >My apologies to Mike Metlay for bruising his extremely delicate sensibilities.
- >He may remember that the original posting was soliciting people to describe
- >how they compose, which is what I was doing, and I don't think I needed to be
- >flamed for my effort.
-
- At this point, I'm getting you confused with Bob Depin. What precisely
- was the content of the putative "flame" and the text that inspired it?
-
- As I can recall, my thesis was merely that you prefer arrangement, and
- I prefer timbre, and that there's room enough in this universe for
- both of us. Where in all of that was a flame directed specifically at
- YOU? I'd truly like to know, because the people who run this list
- frown upon such behavior, and I need to determine what I said that
- offended you so that (a) I can determine if it really was possible to
- construe this as a flame, and (b) I can take appropriate action. By
- private email, if you please.
-
- > You'd darned well better believe I'd be just as happy having live people
- >play my music. Unfortunately this doesn't always happen soon or often enough.
- >On the other hand, these machines we like to play with can do a lot of things
- >that live musicians can never do, and make a lot of sounds that no other instru
- >ment can produce. I can't imagine being without them.
-
- I, on the other hand, haven't worked with an acoustic-instrument band in
- years, with the exception of an occasional guitarist in my studio. I find
- that I don't miss them at all, although I do like having other people play
- other synthesizers with me in a live context (another subject entirely).
- I wasn't claiming that you don't "deserve" to use synths or any such silly
- thing; they're just boxes that make noise, not Gifts From God. I was merely
- pointing our that for the work you appear to do with these boxes, their
- function FIRST AND FOREMOST was to provide you with traditional sounds
- for traditional arrangements, and the timbral flexibility is a second-order
- effect. Was I completely off base?
-
-
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