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On Thursday 04 November 2010 10:43:12 you wrote:

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> Hi Drew,

>

> On Thu, 4 Nov 2010 10:12:57 -0400

>

> drew Roberts  wrote:

> > On Wednesday 03 November 2010 19:28:29 Leigh Dyer wrote:

> > > I don't think there's any point worrying about music production

> > > getting "too easy" or "too accessible" -- the ship probably sailed

> > > on that when Tascam released the Portastudio, or when Dave Smith

> > > and friends created MIDI. People have been making trite music with

> > > the best equipment money can by for years, and others have been

> > > making interesting music with toys and junk for just as long. If

> > > this helps people express musical ideas that they'd been unable to

> > > express beforehand, then that's fantastic.

> >

> > To me, one of the problems comes down to the split between musical

> > appreciation and creation and the technical abilities needed to

> > perform what is imagined / conceived.

> >

> > Imagine if a novelist or poet had to practice for years to gain

> > mastery over the pencil or keyboard in the same way a musician has to

> > practice to gain mastery over their instrument.

>

> I see that analogy as very fitting but the conclusion as simply wrong. A

> novelist or poet does, indeed, spend years (a lifetime even) gaining a

> mastery of not only the "pencil",

I don't agree with this but let's remove even that and give them a personal

recorder and a secretary to transcribe what they have written. So, the pencil

mastery is no longer needed.
> but also the words and sentence

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> structure.

But this is more parallel to the music side of things and not the mastery of

the instrument side of things surely?
> My 8-year old daughter will attest to the difficulty

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> involved and the years it takes to master moving her writing instrument

> to produce the correct glyph--not to mention putting all those glyphs

> together to form words, sentences and ultimately a coherent story that

> expresses her intent.

Well, my son had enough facility with the crayon to make letters from a very

early age.
And again, isn't the rest more on the music side of things as I mention above?
>

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> > Tech that makes it easier to produce what is conceived are no more

> > dangerous to good music than is to move to a pencil from a stone

> > chisel and hammer.

>

> This is agree with wholeheartedly.

Indeed.
And yet I think we often have a fear of this and think it might give someone a

mastery over the other side. It is as if e fear excellent voice recognition

software will let anyone write the next great novel. Probably mostly when we

are not thinking clearly but the fear seems to find expression often enough.

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> David

all the best,
drew

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