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There's sort of two ways to look at the Teenage Engineering products. The first is as a tool to produce music, and the second is as a kind of interactive sculpt
by cnity 2y ago
There's sort of two ways to look at the Teenage Engineering products. The first is as a tool to produce music, and the second is as a kind of interactive sculpture. The design and production of these things is so good they are almost like art themselves. Are they useful? Not really, you could achieve the same thing with a VST — hardware isn't required for this — but to think in this way is to miss the point.
Are sculptures, picture frames, decorative vases and ornamental unused candles unnecessary?
- lomase 2y agoYou are comparing dessign with art.
- jtwaleson 2y agoYou are speaking as if these are well-defined and mutually exclusive categories.
- dkdbejwi383 2y agoWhere do you draw the distinction between the two? Where do you fit things like pop art into this continuum, or objets d'art?
- lomase 2y agoIn my opinion a company can not make art.
- criddell 2y agoAnd you are building a false dichotomy.
- csmpltn 2y agoThis is a digital hardware synth that makes sword-clinking sounds. It goes for 300 USD. This is maybe half a step above a fart cushion. There’s no need to buy this whatsoever…
- cnity 2y agoI won't be buying it either, but there is merit to understanding when you are not in a target market!