Electronic Music 411 - I hate you

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BREAKSCIENCE!

don't you know that people who own that bullshit never make any good music? (legowelt, orgue electonic being the exceptions)
trust gear less and your talent more.

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12/16/07 + tjames

It certainly is beatutiful.

If I had all that I probably wouldn't use it all nearly enough to justify blocking my windows with it.
I ended up using the standard Logic synths way more than any of my hardware.
Now I dust them more than I play them.

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12/16/07 + astroid

whatever

tired old argument

here are the flaws:

there are proportionately as many people making shitty music on shitty gear.

jack dangers. curtis roads. aphex twin. a bunch of other folks.

you people that do this have selective consciousness you employ to take away the pain of not having X gear. it's fine to believe in some nonsense, though. i love most of you who say this anyway.

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12/16/07 + monkvolcano

amen astroid... gimme the anal log.

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12/16/07 + astroid

more curious than just the hate is the cognitive dissonance that you set yourself up for by hating a future possible version of yourself.

let's say you do eventually get some gear, and you have to take the time to learn it. how would you feel about yourself then? worthless? where does all the hate go?

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edited: Dec 16 2007 + breakscience

My head just blew up. I love to say hate in a loving way of course, not actually hating but wishing I had that much gear to play with. I like the "learn what you've got inside and out" argument, but inspiration with software runs thin after a while. Some may say the same thing about hardware. It just different ways to work, and I am definitely ready to work with some hardware.

wait.. scratch "work" and replace with "play".

but I agree that, THAT much would be overwhelming (kind of like my vst folders). Just a few good pieces will do me fine for a long while.

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12/16/07 + korgborglar

whats with the log cabin above his modular?

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12/16/07 + astroid

that's where he keeps his balls

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12/16/07 + ricemutt

yeah, I'm with the too much equipment = bullshit music camp. There is apoint where you cross the line from having a useful amount of gear, to being a gear collector, same as a person who collects cars or baseball cards. On the other hand, having all that ridiculous amount of gear would be fun as shit... but it would probably keep me from ever getting anything done.

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12/16/07 + ricemutt

is there any other equivalent in the art/music world, of people who have such materialistic bullshit intimately intertwined with their means of creation? I mean, not specific people, which there probably are, but entire genres or types of art/music that are so tied up with buying and lusting after doodads and millions of trinkets and collecting toys. Sure, there are rock and roll guitarists with 100 guitars, but that is also completely ridiculous. Look at all these pics of gear porn online. How many painters put pictures on the internet of their racks and racks of paintbrushes... it's really out of hand. I think it's full blown, ridiculous materialistic desire and consumerism that drives shit like this. I'm no stranger to this myself... but i've been trying to stop being that way.

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