prisha suggested this to me.
referenced while making final-project-2_log (in intro-to-physical-computing).
some quotes from the foreword:
Th ere was a mixture of exhilaration and wonder that my generation felt, those of us who worked on a grass-roots level with new technology in music in the sixties and seventies, as we taught ourselves about the fresh marvels then made available for the fi rst time ever: the transistor, a little later the integrated circuit, then the microcomputer.
It’s been interesting for me to learn that some independent-minded young artists won’t even go near a computer when they think about doing their music. Th eir instincts tell them to rebel against this “obedient” mode in which artists—like everyone else—are pushed into continually buying,
But on the other hand, if you think about the “laptop music” style of performance which is currently in vogue, you might notice that there could be a problem, even if the music sounds good, with watching a person sitting in front of a computer and operating the mouse and keyboard. It is just too depressingly similar to what hundreds of millions of workers have to do from nine to fi ve at the offi ce.
something that is a direct result of muscular energy. We might like the relief of something zany and crazy.