Why the current obsession with the acoustic/electronic rivalry, with the analog/digital interface? Why are so many people trying to make natural sources behave like machines and machines like humans?

[ Kind of interesting, if only a quick grazing...

I'm reminded of a record played by my compatriot R which was recorded by a friend who was bored at work. Working at Kinko's, he got the idea to record the sounds made by those big, 12 foot long, multistage ueber copy machines, doing all the various things they do, and release it. It was compelling in a similar way to what this guy is saying, though not, to be truthful, a masterpiece. The track names were cool too... think along the lines of "500 copy run of double sided cardstock, collated, not stapled".

Anyway, I heard the Symphony for DotMatrix some years ago, and the Bad Plus and Brad Mehldau both perform outstanding Jazz trio/quintet versions of Aphex Twin (Film, by Bad Plus) and Radiohead (not electronic, but not really analog either...). -k]