[microsound] post-laptop era?

[isjtar]

as I mentioned before, i'd rather have specialized devices, computers.
because for me the problem is not so much the audience, there's no real
difference between a laptop or music hardware performance for a public.
i also don't think laptops are bad tools.
but for me a problem is that they are general purpose and not specific
to music or visuals.
this means that when working on a piece (from a compositional or
instrumental point of view) the general purpose aspect distracts me from
music.
for example i spend time on wikipedia instead of coding for example.
if i would load my supercollider or pd patches in a dedicated machine,
i'd free myself of much of that. and while i'm at it,
keyboard-screen-mouse is only ideal for live coding. for all other
situations i'd rather have a different interface.
therefore, to make a nice embedded machine which i can program to serve
my needs seems so very nice.
you'd still have the advantages of a laptop: portable, custom code, osc
communication
but not the burden of everyday activities popping up all the time.


Steven Ricks wrote:
> What is "laptop music"?
>
> What constitutes its death?
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Kim Cascone <kim at anechoicmedia.com
> <mailto:kim at anechoicmedia.com>> wrote:
>
>     over the past couple of years I've noticed interesting
>     developments in new music
>     one is the seemingly sudden plethora of laptop musicians
>     the other is the death of laptop music
>
>     interested in hearing opinions regarding the state of new music
>     culture and .microsound
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