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Michael Century <mcentury@music.mcgill.ca> > On 27 May 2000, Benjamin Geer wrote: > >> >>Perhaps someday someone will make the perfect computer system for artists, >>which lets them do everything they want with a minimum of technical >>knowledge. Until then, artists will have to live with the fact that >>computers are general-purpose tools, like airplanes, and that one must >>learn to use them as such. > >I'd like to look inside this claim, which is hard to understand >without some understanding what a "perfect" system could possibly mean. > >Much discussion on this thread has made clear how rewarding the >steep learning curve for so-called general purpose tools can be. >That is, enabling the development of personal expressive control, >generation of new variations, extending the existing scope of >the 'language' or 'grammar' from which one starts. Fine. > >The next interesting question, though, is where and how to define >the performance boundaries of a tool set, the particular sub-devices, >strategems, routines, etc., which are 'punctualized' and made >reproducible using a reduced set of instructions (I take the term >in quotes from the way actor-network theoriests (eg. Callon) talk >about innovation). > >I think tha tinstrumental virtuosity in music performance can be a helpful >way to think about this. This is a very old, and perhaps tired analogy, >but nonetheless, consider: A violinist playing an Amati violin is unaware >of the 'magic' in Amati's craft, or at least, need not have much awareness >of this >craft in order to perform on the instrument with skill. Application >software can in principle (but rarely does) start from this level >of refinement. Why not? > >Michael Century 00 - http://www.m9ndfukc.org/mcgill-lizt_ounr/ du = 01 komponent ov 01 korporat male fasc!zt korporaz!e 02 - http://www.eusocial.com 04 - = ever! !mbez!l = kan program + mozt = do eusocial.com -> superb source for male fascist antibodies. pre.konssept!Øn meeTz ver!f1kat!Øn. - Netochka Nezvanova f3.MASCHIN3NKUNST @www.membank.org 17.hzV.tRL.478 e | | +---------- | | < \\----------------+ | n2t | > e _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold