Bob Douglas wrote:

> I'd have to agree. The issue comes down to this. How socially and politically
> convulsive do events like the current crisis in Serbia/Kosovo/Albania have to
> be, before we bring such topics in out of the cold (namely OT) and acknowledge
> the way they influence our current  music-making.

Oops, sorry. This is the Csound list. This list is not about the way
social and political topics influence our music-making. It's about a
specific computer-music software. 

> It's sobering to remember that we wouldn't be making ANY computer music
> without, some might say, the aesthetically pyrrhic "advances" that occurred
> during WW 2, and thereafter. Alan Turing's work on decrypting the German
> Enigma machine is one of the more benign examples that comes to mind. I'm sure
> most of us could easily call forth many of the more malignant variety.
> 

I know you are just trolling, but I can't resist. We wouldn't be making
any computer music without the invention of the transistor, either. Are
you saying, therefore that we should welcome discussions about
semiconductors on this list?

> The point is that it takes less than six degrees of separation to connect
> Computer Music, per  se, to the DoD.

Oh, please. It alse takes less then six degrees of seperation to connect
computer music to the problem of whether to paint my apartment myself,
or hire someone to do it.

> Has anyone, for
> example, thought of taking the trouble to respond to f1f0's postings in the
> same dialect ?
> 

No. Get it?

Larry


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