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Originally Posted by Tributary Records
A synth is like an effect for a guitarist. It's a keyboard running through a signal process. The player performs and the sound is heard instantly through an amp as they are playing so there is real time feedback.
Copy and pasting sound clips around in a computer program is not playing an instrument. It may be digital sound collaging, but it's not playing an instrument.
Yes, you can create music through computer sound collaging, but it should not be confused with a musician playing an instrument in real time.
A painter should not be confused with someone taking a picture with their iPhone, then using one of the digital programs to simulate a painting from that image.
One also should understand the different between reflective light and pixelated light. All the world around us is seen through reflective light except for the artificial light we see coming from electronic monitors. It's different and affects us differently.
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This ignores the possibility that people first PLAY those sounds, on their piano, keyboard, guitar, whatever, and then paste them together, as you so unkindly call it, which is I think denigrating some really innovative musicians. I'm not into the sampled electronic music personally, but talk to our members Plainview, grindy or YorkeDaddy about how much of their heart and soul goes into making what you call "digital art". I think you have a fight on your hands here, my friend.