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On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Neil C Smith  wrote:
> On 26 July 2012 20:43, S. Massy  wrote:

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> > I often feel that we now have many

> > of the tools we've been dreaming up for the last century and a half but

> > are (most of us) too chicken to use them to their full potential and

> > prefer clinging to superannuated ways.

> >

>

> Perhaps many of those things we've been dreaming of have turned out

> not to be so interesting in reality! :)

>

i've probably used this quote before...
  "tradition is a static defense against a chaotic community

   and what would we gain by destroying it?" (annette peacock)
when i was 15 it seemed to me that breaking the rules was worth doing for

its own sake. now that i'm 48, i'm more interested in understanding the

rules, the history of the rules, the sociology of the rules, the

anthropology of the rules ... and only breaking them when its clear that

"the way we do things" is stupid, anachronistic or just the freakish side

effect of some historical event.
music (the ordering of sound in time, and perhaps space) is a *culture* and

doesn't really mean very much without a cultural context. throwing away the

yokes of technology-past is the dream of a 15 year old. embracing the rules

and ignoring the ones that no longer or never did make sense - that's how

culture (and music) moves forward.
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On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Neil C =

Smith <neil@neilcsmith.net> wrote:

On 26 July 2012 20:43, S. Massy <lists@wolfdream.ca> wrote:

quoted text
> I often feel that we now have many

> of the tools we've been dreaming up for the last century and a hal=

f but

quoted text
> are (most of us) too chicken to use them to their full potential and

> prefer clinging to superannuated ways.

>

Perhaps many of those things we've been dreaming of have turned o=

ut

not to be so interesting in reality! :)i've p=

robably used this quote before...=A0 "tradition is a static de=

fense against a chaotic community =A0=A0 and what would we gain by dest=

roying it?" (annette peacock)

when i was 15 it seemed to me that breaking the rules was worth doing f=

or its own sake. now that i'm 48, i'm more interested in understand=

ing the rules, the history of the rules, the sociology of the rules, the an=

thropology of the rules ... and only breaking them when its clear that &quo=

t;the way we do things" is stupid, anachronistic or just the freakish =

side effect of some historical event.

music (the ordering of sound in time, and perhaps space) is a *culture*=

 and doesn't really mean very much without a cultural context. throwing=

 away the yokes of technology-past is the dream of a 15 year old. embracing=

 the rules and ignoring the ones that no longer or never did make sense - t=

hat's how culture (and music) moves forward.
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