i did it myyyyyyyy way
so you get this shiny new Thing – a new creative tool - and you start to work with it. and soon you’re getting the hang of it. and before long you’re making magic *magic* with it! you and the Thing have become as one! it channels your art, your essence, your vision!
and then you reach some kind of impasse. there’s a problem, and the magic can flow no more. you seek counsel from the Creators of the Thing in the hopes they can put an end to your dilemma, that they can restore the harmony, allowing the magic to flow once again. but the Creators have only disheartening news: it’s not the instrument, it’s *you*. you’re doing it all wrong. it wasn’t meant to be used that way. you’re going to have to change your relationship with the Thing in order to move beyond the current impasse.
like hell! i’m making magic over here! i say it’s the Thing that has to bend to my will, not the other way around. like Jimi Hendrix flipping over his right-handed strat and making it work, or Nancarrow wrenching genius from his player piano. yeah man…it’s just like that! i’m like flippin’ Hendrix over here!
(translation: i’ve spent the last six months setting up our audio middleware to work a certain way. it’s been working like gangbusters until last week. then, due to something the middleware developers might call a “peculiarity” in my approach, limitations of the tool were exposed. now they want me to rethink how i use the tool. and i want them to rethink how the tool could be used. we’ll see who blinks first.)
