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Tue Nov 24
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Allow me to ruin your childhood memories.
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@Shiryu: Oh no, allow me.
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"Do you hear that Fezzik? That is the sound of ultimate suffering. My heart made that sound when the six-fingered man killed my father. The Ferret in Green makes it now. "
11/23/09
Ummm...Common has been in at least 2 movies I remember off the top of my head: Smokin' Aces and, more recently, Terminator: Salvation. There are probably more.
11/23/09
@Citizen Kang: You could even say, movies featuring him are... quite... common?
11/23/09
Touche, my friend. Touche...
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[xspblog.com]
In this one it should be...
Mr. T, it's like he's nuts - you can play with his mohawk?
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@DigitalHero: I went toe to toe with T one time. Only by his mercy am i here to type this today.
11/23/09
The product itself sounds like a pretty good idea to me. More than one music producer got into their craft by playing Codemasters' Music back on the Playstation, and anything that gets people making and understanding music is a good thing in my books. I haven't actually played about with the software, so I can't vouch for how well it achieves what it sets out to, but I've heard plenty of positive comments. I'm sure it's no Logic, but as an entry-grade tool, it looks quite promising.
As for the use of this kind of software in schools, I approve. We played around with Cubase in school, and the fact is that computer music production is as important to modern music as is the playing of live instruments. And where I live, I'd say a majority of kids listen to genres (grime, funky, techno, hip hop, etc.) where live instrumentation played in a studio setting is a rarity.
You're much more likely to get an enthusiastic response from kids if you give them opportunities to express themselves creatively within the cultural milieu that is most familiar to them. There might be an argument about whether this particular piece of software is the most appropriate educational tool for doing that, but if music education is to remain relevant, it has to stay with the curve of modern music.
11/23/09
Please do not get me wrong, I use DAWs and VSTs as a past time (Live 8 user <3), but without my keyboard skills my music would turn into the standard drag-and-drop looping affair.
If they are mixing the two, then I'm all for it, but how it is phrased here gives me the impression that they are simply phasing out instruments all together. This has a danger of killing creativity, no?
11/23/09
But at the same time, there are plenty of producers who create everything in the machine. For some people, the visual format suits the way they think far better than interaction with a physical instrument does.
I think you have to look at any technology or restriction on the technical not as an obstacle, but as something that can be exploited to new, probably unseen creative effect.
A great example is Django Reinhardt. His fretting hand got horribly burned, and he was left with the use of only two fingers. Rather than giving up on his guitar playing, or seeing it as a limiting factor on his creativity within the jazz form, he learned how to adapt to the new way he had to interface with his instrument, and has gone down as one of the most talented, creative, and influential guitarists of all time.
With new technology it's never obvious how musicians will have to adjust in order to make the most of what is at their disposal, but they do always adjust in the end. Perhaps a traditional instrumentalist will sit down to use a DAW and find it like a shackle on their creativity, but for a kid who has been raised from an early age only to understand music from inside a computer? The possibilities are vast.
11/23/09
A bit like today's pop industry actually =/
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Otherwise, it sounds like you're saying that the government agency is recruiting people FOR Xbox Live.
11/20/09
So Xbox gets ads and the user has to pay to see them (aka Live fee?) Good to be a PS3 user then I guess. We get game related ads, but they are free. (No console wars intended - just a new fact I did not know about before...)
11/20/09
I was wondering why the UK wanted people to play XBox specifically.
11/18/09
Or rather, maybe they're trying too hard?
11/18/09
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Seriously, this is completely stupid, what were they thinking? WHAT ARE PEOPLE WHO CLICK THESE ADS THINKING!? WHAT AM I THINKING!??!?
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This is Google. You can use it to find as many breasts as you want, for free, some even without clothes on top of them:
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So why would anyone ever click on an advert for Evony?
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