Dave Chick
1. Computer-based music recording lets people construct tunes without composing, i.e. without figuring out anything in advance. I know I’m guilty of that. It means that it becomes a process of construction rather than of composition. Some great and interesting music can come about that way, but it also prompts further laziness — just sit down and build a song, rather than trying to write one.
2. How often now do we get a bunch of musicians in a room and into a groove? No matter how much “swing” you add to MIDI quantization, it’s not going to sound like that, and music with bands even laying down a rhythm track live in the studio is pretty rare these days, at least in pop, R&B, hip-hop, and rock. Those jazz cats still do it, as do others, but you don’t hear much of it.
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