Call it a toy, call it something to keep your fingers happy while waiting for some paint to dry, call it a diversion for the easily amused — but don’t call it a musical instrument. This overpriced conversation piece is a few steps from the original pads that were used mainly to call in, activate, and rearrange segments of a tune you had previously composed and stored on your PC. This Monome, as it is called (sounds appropriately close to “monotony” I think), makes sounds. Apparently it can do so endlessly. But this garbage, to me anyway, is NOT music. With 100 bumps of rubber that are basically just On/Off buttons, sounds emerge, but I’d say it’s a far cry to really call it music.
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Yes, obviously I think this is pretty stupid. However, the real reason I posted about this is because I feel real pity for youngsters today who are getting into music and think that junk that plays sounds FOR YOU is somehow a hip and preferred way of composing and making music. How bloody lazy have we become that we can’t sit our fat arses down at a piano or real musical instrument and come up with our own melodies? No, now kids can buy this, let it rattle away and bleep, and then they somehow think they have written a song. Yeah, right. You know, given enough time and technology, I think we may finally be able to kill off popular music after all.
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