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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 08:39:00 EST
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- From: Robert Depin <DEPIN@TARGET.COM>
- Subject: MORE COMP STUFF...
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- Make Simon writes:
- > I can't imagine being without them. (synthesizers)
-
- Does this mean you wouldn't compose music if synthesizers weren't
- available ?
-
- Joel Stern writes:
-
- Will
- > musicologists be researching how to produce an accurate Arp
- > Odyssey or DX7 tone in 300 years? Not if our tapes are still
- > around or if there are some carefully preserved pieces of
- > hardware and s ome sequences lying about.
-
- Probably not. But only time will tell if any of the current electronic
- music will stand the teset of time.
-
- > This is because of a deeply ingrained crisis
- > mentality that comes from believing that inspiration will dry up
- > permanently and I'll never have another idea again.
-
- This is the problem which studying other music written or otherwise
- tries to correct. Composers who make a living writting music must face
- deadlines and demannds just like other professions. One can not always
- count on inspiration when meeting these demands. (And I'll agree with
- anyone who argues that this doesn't always produce good music.)
-
- Bob
-