
In a world designed for you to buy and not to reuse, learning to build and
maintain electronics is a very political act. While a lot of electronic music has
been characterized as cold and unfeeling, the process of actually building these
instruments shows you how beautifully lifelike and organic they can be, down to
the electron level. After a bit of self-discovery, you might realize that electronic
music isn’t cold and unfeeling at all.
At the end of the day, it’s important to remember that electronic music really
isn’t music made for machines. It’s made for you.
Electronic music is something deeply, deeply human.
Chapter 15: Thoughts on Automation ...