Ask Slashdot: Resolving the Clash Between Art and Technology In Music? 121
An anonymous reader writes This article in The New York Times shows the clash of purists and people who desire to experiment with "new technology" available to them. The geek in me is really curious about this concept of a digital orchestra (with the ability to change tempos, placement of speakers in an orchestra pit, possibly delaying some to line them up ...). I understand that instrumentalists feel threatened, but why not let free enterprise decide the fate of this endeavor instead of trying to kill it by using blackmail and misrepresentation? Isn't there a place for this, even if maybe it is not called opera ... maybe iOpera?
Re:Union tactics (Score:2, Informative)
For gods sake, look up the origination of the term, you fucking lazy moron.
For myself, I didn't know the source of it up until a few years ago. I wondered why someone said something that didn't make sense to me. I read its Wikipedia entry. Today, I know exactly what cryptolemur is saying.
With the whole world of information at your fingertips, it would have been easier to google for "luddites" than to type your response.