Good Copy, Bad Copy

[Alexander]

Good Copy, Bad Copy

Very interesting and timely. Check it out.

[mikeweil]

Thanks for the link - good piece of documentary.

The way that DJ compares painting and musik making in the beginning of the film doesn't quite make sense to me: He says giving free samples to people to make musik with is like giving free paint and brushes to people - that would make more artists. In Music that would mean giving instruments to people, not computers.

Call me old-fashioned, but for me music making still is the process of getting notes out of an instrument. All that computer generated stuff, no real musicians, just resamplers, remixers - their creativity is so limited. Take away their sound systems and they collapse to dust ...

[mikeweil]

At about 56 minutes into the film he says he's looking for the most minimal elements - that's the problem for me. I'm after sophistication and refinement. That whole world of masses with minimal taste (pardon the offense - not intened) and a creativity based on the sound reproduction and manipulation a computer and not the sound itself - it's not my world.

[Alexander]

It may not be YOUR world, but it is THE world and the genie ain't going back into the bottle. We have to learn to deal with it...