David Gerhard was our speaker this week and he is by far the best lecturer we had this semester. David spoke to us about Gadgets and Devices. His speech was about mostly how to use a program called Max/MSP and how we can basically get it to do whatever we want. Davids example was creating a noise feedback program were he could change the pitch and tone of the noise he recorded in the mic. This really took me back to the lecture with Ian Campbell and VJing because he changed the visual aspect of his performance and David built the program that would do that.
http://tinyurl.com/6vz249c
The Article "Computer Music Sucks" By Bob Ostertag (link below) is annoying, to put it nicely. I wont even overview the plot of this article because it is pure nonsense. Basically Mr Ostertag things he is the deciding person in whether music is good or not. He needs to realize that at one point his music and instruments/ tools, at some point, were considered to be quite futuristic and technical. The same way Bob thinks of "computer music" to be a fad I'm sure back when he was using Synth's people thought his music wouldn't be very good or have much longevity. Mr Ostertag is an old hypocrite who need to open his eyes and realize everything is being done on computers and its only a matter of time music fully exists on/ through computers.
http://bobostertag.com/writings-articles-computer-music-sucks.htm
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