<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Yes! In some ways i think synthesis and concrete music is in some sort of opposition.</div><div><br></div><div>A.X</div><br><div><div>Il giorno 15/dic/09, alle ore 19:46, isjtar ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>interesting.personally i see many evolutions, from the mainstreaming of<br>Ableton Live as a sequencing instrument, the broad acceptance of live<br>fx on acoustic instruments, the incorporation of homemade and factory<br>controllers. also large and small touch screens everywhere - which i<br>don't think is the great next evolutionary step.<br>anyway at my org we are looking at using embedded devices to make<br>computers specific to music.<br>like hardware, but more flexible<br>like a controller, but without the need for a computer<br>like a laptop, but not necessarily with screen, keyboard and mouse<br>i really think custom computers tailored to your idea of a musical<br>instrument can be quite powerful.<br><br>adern, with sinewave music you mean synthesis in general?<br><br>isjtar<br><br><a href="http://okno.be">http://okno.be</a><br><br>Adern X wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">IMHO in the last two years laptop moved from being a music generator<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to the state of a music controller. In other words, if some times ago<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">laptop music used mostly sinewaves as input, now it seems more<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">interesting doing realtime manipulation of samples (or somenting<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">coming from audio inputs) or play with other (real?) instruments.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The result is that it seems less "laptop-music" perhaps because, for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">me, music using sinewaves seems in a creative cul-de-sac.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Hi!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Il giorno 15/dic/09, alle ore 18:38, Kim Cascone ha scritto:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">over the past couple of years I've noticed interesting developments<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">in new music<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">one is the seemingly sudden plethora of laptop musicians<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the other is the death of laptop music<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">interested in hearing opinions regarding the state of new music<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">culture and .microsound<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">microsound mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">microsound@microsound.org <mailto:microsound@microsound.org><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Adern X<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://www.xevor.net <http://www.xevor.net/><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://www.myspace.com/adernx<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"Boredom is the mother of creativity" (Ron Arad)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">microsound mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">microsound@microsound.org<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>microsound mailing list<br>microsound@microsound.org<br>http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Adern X</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.xevor.net/">http://www.xevor.net</a><br><a href="http://www.myspace.com/adernx">http://www.myspace.com/adernx</a></div><div><a href="http://www.myspace.com/adernx"></a>"Boredom is the mother of creativity" (Ron Arad)</div></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>