And, anybody can take a pencil and staff paper and put marks on it, and pay a fiddler to play them. Anybody can write, anybody can paint, anybody can compose, and anybody can think.

I agree that education, training, and professional experience are helpful in becoming good, if that's what you mean. But I don't see what this has to do with the question of computer music.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Bechard 
>Sent: Aug 5, 2008 12:55 PM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Paul Lansky throws in the towel
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>Well, any Mac user CAN compose, and has a wide range of tools with which to do so in the electronic realm. Whether or not those compositions will be good, however, is another matter entirely. I think the author was simply trying to allude to the democratization of the music making process to the masses.
>
>Michael Bechard
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>----- Original Message ----
>From: luis jure 
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>Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 8:45:56 AM
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Paul Lansky throws in the towel
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>
>on 2008-08-05 at 15:58 DavidW wrote:
>
>>it is referencing this article:
>>http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/06/arts/emusic.php
>
>the article is worth reading for this gem:
>
>"Any Mac user can compose,"
>
>this is the art of journalism at its highest: the most complete idiocy
>summed up in five words. and fairly short words at that.
>
>BTW, paul lanksy composed one of my favorite computer pieces of all
>time, the six fantasies. i can't honestly say i like much some of his
>other pieces, though. but i admire and respect him very much. for the
>rest, i think a big fuzz is being made out of this, any composer should
>be free to follow their [*] artistic inclinations at any particular
>moment. and free also from idiotic journalists.
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>
>best,
>
>lj
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>determiner.
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It's interesting to see what Lansky had to say about this almost 20  
years ago:
http://silvertone.princeton.edu/~paul/view.html

The 7th paragraph speaks more or less to this specific point.

Best,
Chris

On Aug 5, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Michael Gogins wrote:

> And, anybody can take a pencil and staff paper and put marks on it,  
> and pay a fiddler to play them. Anybody can write, anybody can  
> paint, anybody can compose, and anybody can think.
>
> I agree that education, training, and professional experience are  
> helpful in becoming good, if that's what you mean. But I don't see  
> what this has to do with the question of computer music.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Bechard 
>> Sent: Aug 5, 2008 12:55 PM
>> To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Paul Lansky throws in the towel
>>
>> Well, any Mac user CAN compose, and has a wide range of tools with  
>> which to do so in the electronic realm. Whether or not those  
>> compositions will be good, however, is another matter entirely. I  
>> think the author was simply trying to allude to the democratization  
>> of the music making process to the masses.
>>
>> Michael Bechard
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: luis jure 
>> To: csound list 
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 8:45:56 AM
>> Subject: [Csnd] Re: Paul Lansky throws in the towel
>>
>>
>> on 2008-08-05 at 15:58 DavidW wrote:
>>
>>> it is referencing this article:
>>> http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/06/arts/emusic.php
>>
>> the article is worth reading for this gem:
>>
>> "Any Mac user can compose,"
>>
>> this is the art of journalism at its highest: the most complete  
>> idiocy
>> summed up in five words. and fairly short words at that.
>>
>> BTW, paul lanksy composed one of my favorite computer pieces of all
>> time, the six fantasies. i can't honestly say i like much some of his
>> other pieces, though. but i admire and respect him very much. for the
>> rest, i think a big fuzz is being made out of this, any composer  
>> should
>> be free to follow their [*] artistic inclinations at any particular
>> moment. and free also from idiotic journalists.
>>
>>
>> best,
>>
>> lj
>>
>> [*] please note the politically correct use of the possessive
>> determiner.
>>
>>
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