Comment by solomonb
21 days ago
I'm not saying anything negative about repetitive music. I'm saying that tools like live coding are going to constrain the kind of music you can produce reasonably.
21 days ago
I'm not saying anything negative about repetitive music. I'm saying that tools like live coding are going to constrain the kind of music you can produce reasonably.
I mean, sure, art has constraints.
My sister likes to work with [checks notes carefully to avoid the wrong words] old textiles. This of course constrains the kind of art she can make. That's the whole point.
I see live coding the same way as the harp, or a loop sampler, an instrument, one of an enormous variety of tools which you might find suits you or not. As performance I actually enjoy live coding far more than most ways to make music, although I thought Amon Tobin's ISAM Live was amazing that's because of the visuals.
I saw Amon Tobin about 15 years back. Still one of my favourite shows ever - and I see a _lot_ of shows.
And year, your music tools/instruments constrain you. There are only so many music genres you can reasonable play or compose on an acoustic guitar. Or an oboe. Or modular synths. I suspect it's _possible_ to compose and play altrock or country music using live coding instead of a guitar - but why would you?
Bleep country feels like it's maybe an idea that could go somewhere.
> but why would you?
For the end result .. which we've yet to hear.
Before it landed a country(?) banjo(?) cover of Eminem's rap classic Lose yourself was a but why would you.
And then Kasey Chambers owned it.
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