| 12.07.2008 by Zoltan |  |
The future of DJing?
Seeing this makes me think of how my mother used to think spinning vinyl was ‘just not how you make music’. Nostalgia for real wax aside, it seems to me that this is a bit too clinical and (potentially) takes a lot of the skill out of DJing. Almost like being able to see the waveform is cheating, as you no longer need to ‘feel’ the music.
But in time i’m sure kids will grow up knowing that they can touch any screen, and expect it to react. Then this will be OK, and we will most certainly be in the future. Or maybe that will be when someone ports this software to the iPhone and tells Andrew Andrew (of the legendary NYC iPod parties) about it?
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spacerock joe says:
this reminds me of how my friend was telling me about his 2 year old and how he’s learned how to scroll through pictures on it by moving his hand across the screen. naturally, the kid now thinks that when he touches a picture frame, he should be able to manipulate and move the image by touching the glass. so, in 20 years or so we’ll have a whole generation who have a more tactile association with LCD screens.
hopefully by then people will be using 24 bit audio instead of “scratching” 160kbps mp3s that sound like shit.
this is why i only buy vinyl.