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Re: Job Market for Lisp and Haskell programmers, serious question.         

Group: comp.lang.functional · Group Profile
Author: Pascal Costanza
Date: Sep 8, 2008 07:44

Didier Verna wrote:
> Slobodan Blazeski gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sep 7, 3:01 am, namekuseijin gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 6 set, 08:01, Pascal Costanza p-cos.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Making music also takes effort.
>>> That used to be true before the 20th century.
>> Making music will always take effort and a lot of talent.
>
> Not necessarily. See Band in a Box for instance.
>
> Another thing to consider is what you actually call "music". With the
> use of samplers, loopers, and computers in general, you get new forms of
> music: you're able to grab pieces here and there, stick them together
> and produce something that sounds nice, without having ever touched an
> instrument, and all that with minimal effort.
>
> I personally don't call that music, because to me, music is or should be
> alive. This is closer to a painting, but is actually worse, for instance
> because people you samples which are from music actually played by real
> musicians. So this is more like a so-called painter who actually would
> scan real paintings from master painters and glue pieces together (and
> sell the result for big bucks).

That sounds very interesting. I'd like to see such paintings. ;)

Pascal

P.S.: If you put effort into such collages and mash-ups, the results can
also be very interesting and exciting. It really depends on the musician
/ artist, not the tools they use.

For example, check out The Tape-Beatles, John Oswald, and similar artists.

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