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Comment by tialaramex

21 days ago

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.

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bigiain  21 days ago

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?

  • defrost  21 days ago

    > 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.

    • tialaramex  20 days ago

      I have to say that I still feel the same way about a country cover of "Lose Yourself" after listening to it. I've never had great love for country, but then I'm not a huge rap fan either, yet to me that cover/ version is only good for the same reason as the original, lyrically this still works even if I don't believe Kasey whereas I did believe Marshall, that this was (or at least seemed) their only way out, but, nothing new was brought to the table IMHO.

      Johnny Cash's "Hurt" is an example where the performance was transformative. Reznor's "Hurt" is a song by a 20-something addict feeling sorry for himself. However Cash is a man who knows he actually doesn't have much time left†, and so almost identical lyrics ("Crown of shit" is changed) feel very different.

      † Cash died about a year after his recording was published.

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