Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society: DECODE YOURSELF Message-ID: <1481@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 12:17:00 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1481 Posted: Mon Aug 12 12:17:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 23:07:10 EDT References: <388@mhuxr.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 15 > On the down side, there is "Snake Alley," a textbook example of the > evil effects of drum computers. The idea of a computer-generated > drum track, with Jackson and the rest of the Society playing on top, > sounds good, but the machine, rather than free the music to soar, > pulls it down into the mud. There is no interplay between the basic > rhythm and the rest of the players. It is not part of the music; it > just exists in its own binary space, not caring a whit about whatever > else may go around it. Done without the machine, the tune would have burned; (CHUCKLE CHUCKLE) Still at it, eh, Marcel? Could you possibly have listened to it and NOT judged it on the fact that it used a "drum computer", just listening to the music and the sound it offered? ... -- "iY AHORA, INFORMACION INTERESANTE ACERCA DE... LA LLAMA!" Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr