Comments on: Maker-Faire Music: Moldover’s Syncomasher, Live Electronica Controllerism for Everyone

By: Tyler

Tyler — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:14:00 +0000

The second video is great. Take the specifics of the controller out of it and you can see what he is really talking about. It is the spirit of controllerism. The controller is not becoming useless but more functional and specialized. It’s the principle of the thing. How detailed can you get in 3 minutes on MTV. It’s enough time to inspire and motivate to be sure. Thanks Matt. And thank you Peter for the post.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:38:28 +0000

Psychology of a troll:

1. Personal issues.

2. Drunk.

3. Well, that was me.

I’m sorry for being such a a negative idiot. Please forgive me for polluting this great post.

By: Keats' Handwriting

Keats' Handwriting — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:27:42 +0000

Wow… I’ve never seen such negativity on this site.

I really enjoyed Moldover’s video and wanted to see more so I watched some of his other videos. It seems that some people get really angry about Moldover’s videos.

I feel like it takes a very good teacher, to make the complex seem easy. So many people criticize before understanding.

Also, @rhowaldt- thank you. Everyone plays guitar (including me) and it’s so boring.

Contra, Mark I love this site – thanks everyone for making a great and (except for Mark) positive place to hang out.
~Joel

By: BARF

BARF — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:57:49 +0000

Mark is just another troll getting angry on the internet. Ignore him and maybe he will actually “not come around here ever again.”

By: rhowaldt

rhowaldt — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:06:08 +0000

@Mark: please, PLEASE do not encourage even more people to learn and play a guitar. its the only instrument everybody ever seems to play, and most suck at it. my wife has no idea how to play the guitar, yet i want to give it to her all the time as she uses it to create the strangest sounds, sounds i wish i could get out of that thing. the only reason she has this power is because she approaches this instrument completely naïeve.
now, your opinion might be, when you hear above example, that it is a bunch of crap. to my ears however, it is a refreshing way of using a terribly cliché instrument. she breaks the rules simply because she is not aware of the rules. why would that be bad?
more importantly: why do you care? why do you care enough to keep posting comments? because you believe you are right? you seem like an educated person with an argumented view, but you should have realised somewhere along your education that there is no such thing as wrong or right, as it differs per person, per situation and per everything, hence, it does not exist. its simply a rule we live by to make life easier. break the rule.

i’m right, and all of you know it.

By: tiago morgado

tiago morgado — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:23:32 +0000

music is changing, everything is changing. the world is changing.. but there are things that never change..

and I grant you all that with the developments we are seeing in the modern world, I am surely going to make all my efforts so that, one day, if I have children, they will have a completely different music education that the one I did (although I won’t obviously obly them to be musicians)

By: wasili

wasili — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:30:38 +0000

MORE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
i’m really excited about this,Peter.exactly what i needed.
Moldover is a GENIUS!!!!!!

By: gwenhwyfaer

gwenhwyfaer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:22:05 +0000

Well, Mark, thanks for helping us all to understand why you took the “troll” comment so personally, anyway.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:37:39 +0000

Oh, and if you want to know why I’m so grumpy…#1, well, because I’m right and you’re some suckling college age musical dilettante. #2 because my marriage is falling apart and I’m over it #3 I have no children and I’m going to whack myself so I figure I may as well give you whatever knowledge I feel you need to hear. Make sense? You don’t need theory, but at least learn how to play the fucking guitar for christ’s sake.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:25:50 +0000

Not the academic rules you imply. Don’t be a twat. Rules are made to be broken, and without rules to be broken, you end up with unlistenable noise. There are rules to sampling. #1 is; Don’t make a musical shite stew that sounds like it came from a Cop using fruity loops. “Vast and expanding technology” does not equate to palatable noise worth putting in your ears. So in reply, there is a rule. Make music worth listening to. Stop masturbating over the crappy wal-mart tech’ behind it, and make some good music. I repeat, stop slobbering over crappy technology.