Comment by rdiddly

Someone butthurt enough to downvote the most harmless comments once again I see. Hey I use mechanical timekeeping and beats too, but only as a second-choice substitute for a human drummer. To claim I'm not "gridified" when I do use them is nonsense. The tempo is set, unvarying, and makes no allowances for any spontaneous pushing or pulling of the tempo that any humans in the room might want to do to express something human. If you have a tempo tapper, that helps. Otherwise it's just as much of a strictly gridified tempo as if you went in afterwards and "corrected" it. Oh the numbers will look slightly better because you (humanly) will have trouble landing exactly on every single beat of the mechanical tempo. Instead the effect will show up as an absence of any of those things that were unable to be expressed. Which the listener doesn't even realize they're missing, and which the numbers don't measure. On that note, is this writer not turning directly against his own thesis by saying abstracted numbers are our preferred mode of contemplation? Or by implying that the answer, the truth, is in the numbers? The "data?" But hey what do I know, I've only been making music for 40 years.