[Fmpro] anyone seen this technology?? O.o

[Alain Mayrand]

This is a bit like digital stunt performers, isn't it? It takes the 
magic right out of it.

Or listening to all these singers requiring pitch correction, I mean how 
can you take them seriously?

This is a technical exercise, a great accomplishment from a programmer's 
perspective, but I am not worried, music magic is in the human performance.

A perfect computer performance is soulless, a perfect human performance 
is magic. (By perfect I mean one that seems to be, of course...) People 
want to see people make music, and great performers are the lifeblood of 
music.

I can't see it changing any time soon.

However, what worries me is that all of these technological crutches has 
allowed people into the music world which have no business there. Or at 
least, they should have studied and practiced more...!

Alain






chris at alpiar.com wrote:
> I thought about technology all night and our whole bleeding to the bone industry. A ship sinking even though the hull is built of the lifeforce of hundreds of thousands of talented people who have shared their souls, and needed to share it so badly they couldnt do something else to make money in this material world (along with more then a few hacks who pretended) and succumbed to a captain of greed to command their vessel. One who only thought about short term and never watched the water change and start to be filled with metal objects which quickly tore the hull away. Now he runs around with some duct tape and yells at the boat to go faster so he can squeeze his last few drops out before he lets it sink into the rotting water.
>
> One thing is certain in 20 years from now what technology does and what humans do to make music will be very very different from what we do today. Let's make sure that as we progress into the cool electric blue smoke funk of the future that we keep in mind what is music, what is art, what is humanity, what is the human soul. And as each stems from the one after, we need to practice acknowledging, studying and aggrandizing our roots while we move forward into unexplored territory. Being a scientist requires mastering history. Today not only in fear of spending energy recreating the wheel, but in fear of creating something solely soulless, something made of machine with no relation to the human soul, the human condition, or the emotional state of the times.
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> Christopher Kennedy Alpiar
> Cinematic Composer
> http://www.alpiar.com/
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> http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna I saw this link on the northernsounds forums...this is unbelievable, and no not his crazy beard and hair... Christopher Kennedy Alpiar Cinematic Composer http://www.alpiar.com/ _______________________________________________ The Film Music Pro List is sponsored by Film Music Magazine - http://www.filmmusicmag.com Best of FMPRO: http://www.fmproquotes.com - Quotes site by Billy Hale Music To edit your list options or unsubscribe, visit: http://nxport.com/mailman/listinfo/fmpro 
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