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Real/Fake Drumming On A Fake/Real Keyboard: Thinking About Virtual Musicianship
The photo is me–playing a percussion part on the keyboard. This is one of the stranger wonders of the digital turn in music over the past quarter century: triggering sounds with instruments or controllers that themselves have nothing to do with those sounds. I don’t mind playing drums on the keyboard though. In fact, I’ve Continue reading
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Jaron Lanier on Technology: Music and MIDI
Jaron Lanier, an American computer scientist, musician, and author, is pretty cool in my book. In his recent manifesto, You Are Not A Gadget, he makes a strong case for probing how technology reduces us as the creative humans that we are, muting the “cultural anger” we need to come up with new tools that do Continue reading
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