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On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:57 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Neil C Smith

> wrote:

>         On 26 July 2012 20:43, S. Massy  wrote:

>         > I often feel that we now have many

>         > of the tools we've been dreaming up for the last century and

>         a half but

>         > are (most of us) too chicken to use them to their full

>         potential and

>         > prefer clinging to superannuated ways.

>         >

>

>

>         Perhaps many of those things we've been dreaming of have

>         turned out

>         not to be so interesting in reality! :)

>

> i've probably used this quote before...

>

>   "tradition is a static defense against a chaotic community

>    and what would we gain by destroying it?" (annette peacock)

>

> when i was 15 it seemed to me that breaking the rules was worth doing

> for its own sake. now that i'm 48, i'm more interested in

> understanding the rules, the history of the rules, the sociology of

> the rules, the anthropology of the rules ... and only breaking them

> when its clear that "the way we do things" is stupid, anachronistic or

> just the freakish side effect of some historical event.

>

> music (the ordering of sound in time, and perhaps space) is a

> *culture* and doesn't really mean very much without a cultural

> context. throwing away the yokes of technology-past is the dream of a

> 15 year old. embracing the rules and ignoring the ones that no longer

> or never did make sense - that's how culture (and music) moves

> forward.

The truth is that you are right :(. But it shouldn't be that way.
Regards,

Ralf
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