“Another plugin. Granular synthesis now.”
“It sounds amazing.”
“Yes. Versatile, fun. And easy to use. I’m worried about the usual stuff.”
“…”
“Where does one find the composer? Or the composer’s identity, more specifically? This vanishes behind the technical and aesthetic sovereignty of the work tool, of the instrument.”
“…”
“And I also perceive a disturbing tension. For perhaps I am outdated and haven’t been able to grasp that the autonomy of technological resources is, precisely, what ‘electronic music’ is all about—whatever ‘electronic music’ may be nowadays. Yet reality reveals something else: the composer is, for audiences and the industry (including critics, of course), and to borrow from Jesús Maestro, ‘más vivo que Dios.'”
“So… Machine or human ingenuity?”
“Don’t know. But the distinction I remember hearing Steve Duda make between musician and designer/programmer no longer seems valid.”
“Wasn’t that always the case, though? Lab coats and aesthetic ruminations.”
“…”
cosmic lithium :) 