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lously calculating interlocking pitch class/attack point matrices, they had the nerve to talkabout interpretation? The dots are all there. What else do you need?Then I made a critical discovery that changed my life. This discovery involved somethingthat had been sitting on my desk for years, but with its true potential unfulfilled—myMacintosh. I had no idea at first that I could make music with my Mac. I had used MicrosoftWord for word processing. I had even used Finale to write scores, but I had no idea it couldplay them. Then one day I accidentally opened the playback window. My world changed forever.General MIDI and my Mac gave me the creative outlet I had always dreamed of. I finally hadan unlimited ensemble of instrumentalists, all dutifully playing exactly what I asked them toplay. The best part, though, is that the same ensemble resides in every Mac as part of theQuicktime Musical Instruments extension. So let’s say I write a symphony. I could send thescore out to various orchestras and, if one of them actually programmed it, maybe a fewhundred people would hear a woefully under-rehearsed performance. Or I could post thesame score on the Web as a Standard MIDI File for performance by the “MIDI Philharmonic,”available for any interested listener to download for his or her own “Command Performance.”You might think that General MIDI had become passé, given the recent popularity of MP3. Idisagree. Unlike General MIDI, MP3 is not a creative medium. Its sole purpose is to copyexisting recordings. Plus, I don’t have the patience to download 4 MB MP3 files when I canfind the same tune as a 40K Standard MIDI File. Others have tried to talk me into switchingplatforms. They rave about a Windows compatible program called Acid that creates dancemixes of other people’s music. I mean no offense in saying this, but that’s not real composition.I struggle with every note I write, as much as my G3’s internal speaker struggles tosqueak out each note. It may not be pretty, but it’s real. Okay, it’s not real, but it’s my art andit’s the best I can do. God, I’m so depressed.Copyright © 2000 David Ozab (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Edlo). David Ozab is a Ph.D student at theUniversity of Oregon, where he teaches electronic music courses and assists in the day-to-day operation of TheFuture Music Oregon Studios. Note: The opinions expressed in the above article are not those of About ThisParticular Macintosh, or the author, or anyone else with a small measure of musical understanding and/orcommon sense. In other words…April Foolz!ATPM 6.04 ← 30 → Columns: Who Needs Musicians?
Columns: But I Ordered SteakAbout ThisOpinionOn a Clear DayYou Can See The Hollywood Sign…BY MIKE SHIELDSmshields@atpm.comBut I Ordered SteakI was going to talk about the lawsuit 1 the Motion Picture Association of America is filing,and I might even get to that, but until an actual decision is made it doesn’t really affect me, orany of my three readers for that matter.We’ve had an interesting situation pop up at Rocket Science Central. The PC-afflicted peopleI work with use and support Windows ’95 on laptops, and NT 4 on the desktopmachines. The make is irrelevant. Now this is all fine and good, and the System Administrators(SAs) that I work with handle this with little or no problem. This is our policy. We haveit, and that’s what comes installed when you, the Rocket Scientist, order a new PC from us.Of course, this won’t stop the more technical among you from asking for NT on your laptop,which I understand is a bear to do. Furthermore, we don’t support it, unless of course youask really, really nicely…in which case we’ll go out and install it for you, over and over again,until we get it right. And even after that, if you have a problem with it, it’s fully supported.The best analogy I can come up with here is that it’s like going into Kentucky Fried Chickenand ordering steak. Instead of them giving you a funny look and telling you to go away, theyask, “Would you like it rare, medium, or well done?” and they proceed to serve you steak.We have these on our platform too, which I will dub “KFC moments.” They happen all thetime in the service industry, from what I hear; the customer asks for something that youdon’t normally do, and since you believe the customer is always right, you try to accommodatethem. From what I’ve found, the customer isn’t always right, but on the other hand acustomer is a customer.1. http://www.maccentral.com/news/0002/08.mpaa.shtmlATPM 6.04 ← 31 →Columns: But I Ordered Steak
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lously calculating interlocking pitch class/attack point matrices, they had the nerve to talkabout interpretation? The dots are all there. What else do you need?Then I made a critical discovery that changed my life. <strong>This</strong> discovery involved somethingthat had been sitting on my desk for years, but with its true potential unfulfilled—my<strong>Macintosh</strong>. I had no idea at first that I could make music with my Mac. I had used MicrosoftWord for word processing. I had even used Finale to write scores, but I had no idea it couldplay them. Then one day I accidentally opened the playback window. My world changed forever.General MIDI and my Mac gave me the creative outlet I had always dreamed of. I finally hadan unlimited ensemble of instrumentalists, all dutifully playing exactly what I asked them toplay. The best part, though, is that the same ensemble resides in every Mac as part of theQuicktime Musical Instruments extension. So let’s say I write a symphony. I could send thescore out to various orchestras and, if one of them actually programmed it, maybe a fewhundred people would hear a woefully under-rehearsed performance. Or I could post thesame score on the Web as a Standard MIDI File for performance by the “MIDI Philharmonic,”available for any interested listener to download for his or her own “Command Performance.”You might think that General MIDI had become passé, given the recent popularity of MP3. Idisagree. Unlike General MIDI, MP3 is not a creative medium. Its sole purpose is to copyexisting recordings. Plus, I don’t have the patience to download 4 MB MP3 files when I canfind the same tune as a 40K Standard MIDI File. Others have tried to talk me into switchingplatforms. They rave about a Windows compatible program called Acid that creates dancemixes of other people’s music. I mean no offense in saying this, but that’s not real composition.I struggle with every note I write, as much as my G3’s internal speaker struggles tosqueak out each note. It may not be pretty, but it’s real. Okay, it’s not real, but it’s my art andit’s the best I can do. God, I’m so depressed.Copyright © 2000 David Ozab (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Edlo). David Ozab is a Ph.D student at theUniversity of Oregon, where he teaches electronic music courses and assists in the day-to-day operation of TheFuture Music Oregon Studios. Note: The opinions expressed in the above article are not those of <strong>About</strong> <strong>This</strong><strong>Particular</strong> <strong>Macintosh</strong>, or the author, or anyone else with a small measure of musical understanding and/orcommon sense. In other words…April Foolz!ATPM <strong>6.04</strong> ← 30 → Columns: Who Needs Musicians?
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