Database: Carter Harman On Semi-Automatic Clichés

“The reason those bleeps and chirrups and the rest of the clichés appear is that they are semi-automatic, and turned on with a minimum of effort, to fill in embarrassing gaps in the composition. But finding fault with the medium because synthesizers are capable of making bad music is like faulting all piano music because the instrument has a sustaining pedal that can be misused.”

Carter Harman, “How Electronic Music Got That Way” (1968)



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