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ACFM Trip 24: Technology

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Acid House - The Last Icon Before Music

The roll in three o three basynt iser was intended just to be a practice aid for getarists. It wasn't intended to be used in actual musical production, but it was very unsuccessful commercially because it was hard to programm. And so they ended up getting used by these experimental techno and house producers to produce this incredible sort of science fictional sound. And it became the sound of acid house. i think that's a really great examp f how technologies do have sort of material properties of their own. They have what theorists of technology call affordances, which aresort of built into them, even if theyare not intended by the people who design them. And they can be

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