drdave@buhub.bradley.edu (David L. Vessell) (02/27/91)
I'm currently taking a class called "Computers, Ethics, and Society"
(CS500) and I'm doing a thesis on people's attitudes towards using
computers in music performance. Below is a short list of questions. If
you wish, please take the time to reply to this survey. I will post the
results of the survey in about a month, after my report is finished.
Thanks.
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Computers and Music Survey
1. To what extent do you feel computers has influenced music today?
a) Little or no effect.
b) Some effect but not a great deal.
c) Considerable effect.
d) Drastic effect.
2. Do you view the current and future computer influences on music to be:
a) Greatly positive?
b) Somewhat positive?
c) Not making much of a difference?
d) Somewhat negative?
e) Greatly negative?
3. What do you see as the greatest advantage to computers in music?
(Be brief.)
4. What do you see as the greatest disadvantages to computers in music?
(Be brief.)
5. Name up to five artists or groups that use computers in a positive,
worthwhile manner.
6. Name up to five artists or groups that use computers in a negative
manner (e.g. as a crutch, to mask lack of talent, etc.)?
7. What other comments would you like to make concerning computers in
music?
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Please e-mail all responses to drdave@buhub.bradley.edu. Please don't post
answers to this newsgroup.
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David L. Vessell Bradley Univ. Peoria, IL drdave@buhub.bradley.edu
"'Cause I can see the future, and it's a place....about seventy miles
east of here...." --Laurie Anderson
=============================================================================afdenis@lims03.lerc.nasa.gov (STEPHEN DENNISON) (03/01/91)
> >Computers and Music Survey > >1. To what extent do you feel computers has influenced music today? ^^^ How about "HAVE" ? > c) Considerable effect. > > >2. Do you view the current and future computer influences on music to be: > > b) Somewhat positive? AND > d) Somewhat negative? The positives and negatives do not cancel out leaving no effect. There was no appropriate way to say this other than BOTH b and d. > > >3. What do you see as the greatest advantage to computers in music? > (Be brief.) Great musical ideas are not lost due to the inadequate technique of the guy who has the idea, i.e. sequenced parts, corrections, etc. > > >4. What do you see as the greatest disadvantages to computers in music? > (Be brief.) Any fool can make reasonably good sounding record, thus polluting the airwaves with drivel that isn't weeded out by brain-dead record company bureaucrats. > >5. Name up to five artists or groups that use computers in a positive, > worthwhile manner. The Police Yes Todd Rundgren (sp ??) Stevie Wonder World's Most Dangerous Band (Late Night w/ David Letterman) > >6. Name up to five artists or groups that use computers in a negative > manner (e.g. as a crutch, to mask lack of talent, etc.)? Hall and Oats The Human League > >7. What other comments would you like to make concerning computers in > music? Drum machines, while excellent pre-production tools, should be banned from final recordings as should any keyboard sampled sounds. There is simply no way a keyboard player can simulate the nuances of whatever instrument his sampler is set to sound like and almost all attempts come up short. In live performances, however, samplers are a God-Send. > > >-----------------------------------(cut here)----------------------------- > > >Please e-mail all responses to drdave@buhub.bradley.edu. Please don't post >answers to this newsgroup. > oops, too late :-) >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >**dR.Dave** ....making the world safe for intelligent dance music. > David L. Vessell Bradley Univ. Peoria, IL drdave@buhub.bradley.edu > "'Cause I can see the future, and it's a place....about seventy miles > east of here...." --Laurie Anderson >============================================================================= Stephen +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Disclaimer: I know Nothing... Nothing !! "And the sign said, long haired freaky people need not apply..." -- 5 Man Electrical Band "Then what the HELL am I doing here ??" -- Stephen Dennison +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++