i think some people in the free and open source world should expose
themselves to commercial software a bit more. it's playing to the
gallery to suggest that commercial programmers are perverted
flatterers, and that the software tricks its users into being less
creative. and really - open source people don't flatter each other?
what nonsense.
i'm using bidule - which has a similar paradigm to pure data. it's
commercial, which wasn't a factor in my choice (except that spending
money is painful, so i would rather not). i don't recognise terms
like 'high level' and 'low level' applied to music creation tools -
tools work with us to give expression to our musical impulses. there
is only one level, and that's the level that the artist is working at.
i'm not very good yet. i must practise. but what a miserablist
position to take that i have to make my own sine waves before i can
be considered a 'real' artist - and that if the bidule guys have made
some for me then that's them generating my art, not me! selmer made
my saxophone, and i loved it for what it let me do to the air around
me, and i loved them for making it. did selmer make my music? no. i
fucking did.
there. i vented. alex - you know i love what you do and hugely admire
how you do it.
paul
de-lurking - and i have been lurking around this field of endeavour
for about 15 years!
Received on Thu Oct 06 2005 - 22:12:16 BST