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What's your opinion on the Computerization Of music?

“It really makes musicians perform less. Listening to their album entertains us but in live performance, they do not connect with the band. It is a disaster to see your favorite musician failing.”
Azeb, part-time musician

“What’s wrong with it? I don’t think it matters that much. A few tricks won’t hurt.”
Daniel, audio/video shop owner

“First of all, to computerize music, the singer must have an attractive voice. A good voice is the basis to use an effect so it doesn’t change the singer’s performance.”
Mekuria, student
“If the live performance is the same as the album, why not a little effect?”
Aynalem, bartender

“It is so power full, it challenges the audiences’ ability to identify the effect and the singer’s voice. Some times a beautiful song comes out of it.”
Derej, DJ

“I don’t mind as long as it is good music. Whether it is traditional or modern, let it be a good one to entertain me.”
Belachew, office personnel

“I love watching live performances, however, the musicians have to entertain as they catch my attention through their album.”
Biruk, student

“I don’t listen to music that has effects or any thing related to computerization. It is not my type of music at all.”
Kuku, stationery owner

Music-an endangered Species

I heard this prickly sound coming the stereo I was listening to. My body was starting to relax till the light flow of the music was interrupted with some sort of ‘effect’ on the music…boom.
Music is the first and the last thing to inspire and loosen me up. The style of the music to log in depends on my feeling of the day; there might be a day for a party, a day to calm down or a day to entertain music- not to be entertained by music.
The good old day’s music was targeted to please the musicians and audiences too. Now a days, there is tittle-tattle all over the country that musicians of the day are taking advantage of playing music. The poverty of society makes unprofessional youth and spoils the values and ethics of the nation. This might be what happened to our music in the name of passion.
Technology- as it has changed everything in life, so it has changed music. Take any of your favorite musicians; every thing that goes through the recording process must go through an adjustment to make the best of the music. On such a process, some try a little effect that no one could notice and others sound that spoils the good album.
Some singers who get on stage and have the passion handle the effect beautifully and make it natural; on the other hand, those who take advantage of music- they come out once, make the profit they dreamed of, then who knows where they are? They abandoned music and their audience shamelessly.
Audiences have no guts to hate music computerization because it makes for the best album. It avoids the thorny issues of studio sound or echos and adds a bit of color. The techno has played a great deal of finalizing a perfect sound.
Take the legendary musicians Astair and Tilahun. Various songs were selected from the different albums they have produced and compiled in to one best hits album. You really can taste what techno has contributed to their collections. The sound is better than before, voices can be heard clearly. So we are not against it but we say don’t make the entire song computerized. By the way there was time computers were a new phenomena but not today.
Make an album with the aid of computers but leave the live performance for those who really can entertain their audience. Music is not only for entertainment it is also a universal language in which people can share feelings and sorrows. The bottom line is who would deny good music?
Rabindranath Tagore has articulated music’s supremacy in three lines of his FireFlies:
Leave out my name from the gift
If it be a burden,
But keep my song.