Yngwie Malmsteen paradox
Also known as the Jazz paradox, the Yngwie Malmsteen paradox addresses this irony: the power of technology to make our lives easier, by making them harder.
 Yngwie yesterday. Ok: yesteryear, at any rate.
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Modern information technology allows us to freely manipulate, desiccate, desecrate, defibrillate and duplicate data. A good enough algorithm can, in theory, handle any kind of syntactical complexity, costlessly ingesting and processing the densest textual construction. With a simple cut-and-paste we can replicate, vary and augment at will. But this generates what we call the “Yngwie Malmsteen paradox”[1]: Just because guitar technology[2] means you can play 64th note flattened mixolydian arpeggios at 200 bpm doesn’t mean you should.
See also
- Reg tech and why it is so disappointing — due in part, by analogy, to Yngwie Malmsteen.
References
- ↑ Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel might have called it the “Jazz paradox”
- ↑ Scalloped frets, flat radii, locking tuners, rectified amplifiers etc.