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This recalls the early days of synthesizers; what was Switched-On Bach if not “I see what you did there”? I hope that analogy is right, because the synth provides a healthy, sustainable template for these tools (AI). Ubiquitous and unremarkable, controllable and hackable, with flavors ranging from fully corporate to gloriously DIY … I’m realizing, as I type this, that synthesizers might be one of the truly utopian technologies.
Robin Sloan, Notes on a Genre -
You are ok until you get a compulsion to buy a lab coat for use with the modular. Once the lab coat happens, you’re really screwed.
The Mysteries Of 5U Modular on Reddit -
No matter how beautiful your interface is, it would be better if there were less of it.
Edward Tufte -
Of all harmonic devices, it [a drone] is not only the simplest, but probably also the most fertile.
Peter Van Der Merwe