The Birth of the Technical Creative

While I was growing up as a kid I was constantly told about how there are two different types of personalities in this world. Those who are considered to be creatives and those who are the logicals. The creatives are often times associated with the right-brain and the logicals to be associated with the left-brain.

Up until the computer age it didn't seem that people were afforded options where they could explore their left and right brains, and there did not exist many fields that explored both sides of the classification. I mean artists were generally relegated to being painters, musicians or dancers, while the logics were largely relegated to the math and science fields.

Looking at the progression of electronic music however, particularly computer based electronic music, the distinctions between these groups seems to diminish some doesn't in it? For example we have programs out there now such as Max/MSP where the musicians are literally programming their sounds with math. Trackers for years have turned music creation into the process of placing mathematical numbers, in HEX format no less, into well defined segmented mathmatical time frames. Modular synthesizers, digital DSP, analog has really blended the line.

It is curious to wonder if this progression of the technological age and the computer age will tear down the past common psychological perspectives of the left vs. right and the creative vs. logical. Maybe, we won't have to try to categorize people as a "one or the other" and perhaps we can allow and encourage everyone to explore both sides of their psychological personality. I am curious if anyone in the professional field will ever pick up this change in the younger generations as more and more of the general population is born out of the computer age.


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