| ▲ | coldtea an hour ago | |
>The entire premise of this essay rests on the idea that musical performances are necessarily played live (particularly, with a live drummer), in the tradition of rock music. This just qualitatively does not apply to much modern music, where drums are played by a machine or computer One could say modern music is not "musical performances" then. A sequencer or drum maching playing isn't "a performance", it's a programmed loop. >Do those genres 'groove' worse and feel less human? Yes. | ||
| ▲ | Parae 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
Drum machines are instruments. Even if sequenced, drum machines are live instruments and they require skill. It requires time to master. It's not only "programmed loop". When I play the drum machine, I program it live. I never play the same thing twice. It IS a performance. It applies for both vintage drum machines (such as E-mu drumulator or tr808) and new gen ones or grooveboxes (such as Electribes or Octatracks). | ||
| ▲ | williamdclt an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
> One could say modern music is not "musical performances" then. A sequencer or drum maching playing isn't "a performance", it's a programmed loop. The drum machine is not all of the performance. In pop you'll have at the very least a singer. Even if all of the instrumental is machine-made, having a live singer definitely makes it a "performance". | ||