1930: gestural control is the future of electronic music
1982: gestural control is the future of electronic music
1996: gestural control is the future of electronic music
2024: gestural control is the future of electronic music
turns out people like to push buttons
@Aleums oh that’s why it’s called fuck buttons

@Aleums partner built the opentheremin and took forever for us to find the correct aluminum antennas for it. and i finally tried it and...

it feels so undignified standing there flapping around. it's now a decorative piece

@Aleums So what you are saying is gestural control is the future of electronic music!!
@whiskeysailor @Aleums
Perhaps via some kind of booty tracking?
@Aleums thank you doctor Manhattan

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2025 - code is the future of electronic music

( https://strudel.cc , thanks @eddyflux , https://codeberg.org/uzu/strudel , image dj_dave)

@mrv @Aleums @eddyflux i regret to report people have been saying this since at least 2013
@ahihi @mrv @Aleums @eddyflux
Midi was introduced February 1, 1983
@Aleums Have we finally stopped saying touchscreens will replace mice and keyboards on the desktop? Because boy that shit was everywhere after the iPhone came out.
@radicalrobit @Aleums They will pry my keyboard and trackball from my cold, dead hands.
Touchscreens are dogshit for typing and I will die on that hill.

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1977: Music is the future of gestures

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Clara Rockmore tho

Like…maybe the future already arrived 100 years ago and only one human being was skilled enough to make use of it

@Aleums year of the Linux desktop vibes.
@Aleums i am pressing the button that says "pressing buttons is the gesture we've established to control things"
@velexiraptor (jack off motion) I am making the gesture that communicates that gestures are useless
@Aleums oh yeah no im with you on that