Why free software in free music?
Arriving from the position of playing improvised music, I am interested in trying to question how a musician is supposed to interact with his instrument; in my case a computer. In other words, what I want to do is to play the instrument against the grain and to expose the way a computer constructs you as a user. In order do this I use various rudimentary tactics such as playing just the hardrive, bowing the case of the computer or using the plastic box as a resonance box. I direct my attention towards the things the computer demands from the user as much as the things it can do for you; the need for constant attention to the screen, the need to turn the machine on, etc. For me it is important not to make hierarchies between the sounds that the materiality of the computer would produce, over the ones that could be produced with software. Playing this way makes the computer an electroacoustic device in itself, interrupting the ideologies behind music software. Improvisation makes implici
