<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Apparently it looks as a new mean used for old music thinking.<div>If lo-fi helped us to get rid of harmony and patterning coming from academic minimal style, there no point in resuming it once again.</div><div>Its' too early (IMHO) for it to be a style revival, it looks more like a style (attempt of) survival.</div><div>Nevertheless packaging is very nice and this is anyway just my opinion after the vimeo's video...</div><div><br></div><div>m</div><div><br><div><div>Il giorno 07/set/2010, alle ore 17.20, john saylor ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>hey<br><br>don't know how many are aware of this:<br><a href="http://www.1bitsymphony.com/">http://www.1bitsymphony.com/</a><br><br>well, i bit [ouch!] and got it. there are some interesting things<br>about the music, but to be quite frank, i prefer most of the chiptune<br>players to perich. when listening to it, i often felt that while his<br>understanding of how machines make music was not as deep as it could<br>be. i guess i could simplify it by saying i felt there was more<br>symphony than there was 1 bit.<br><br>also, while the code for generating the music [i think] was included<br>on the card there was precious little about meta issues [what the<br>software was like, how the programming was done, what were his<br>aesthetic aims with this music, and so on]. and from an engineering<br>standpoint, it seems like it was not designed to last very long or<br>take much abuse. people spill and drop things [and their kids tear<br>them apart ...] all the time. i don't think this package can take much<br>of that. there is something about a cd release that is kept by using<br>the same packaging, i get that; but as a bit of technology, it kinda<br>fails in my book.<br><br>don't misunderstand, i think it's an interesting project, and i put<br>out my currency to but it. so that says something in and of itself.<br><br>other opinions, comments?<br><br>-- <br>\js : "verbing weirds language." -calvin [http://or8.net/~johns/]<br>_______________________________________________<br>microsound mailing list<br>microsound@microsound.org<br>http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div><br><br><div>
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