Do you agree that computer has done more harm than good to Nigeria? Victor Uwaifo thinks so.
Recently Victor Uwaifo has expressed his hate for the use of computer in the music industry. He compared music of the then 60s and now and made open disdain of current artists methods.
In his statement,
“They are completely two worlds, you go to the studio and record, when you make a mistake you repeat all over again but over time they started introducing small gadgets until we got to the age of computer.
“In computer you don’t need to have a band, one man can record, he goes to the studio, lay down the track, play the other instrument, get the other musician to lay down his track differently, just like a tailor making a shirt.
“He cuts them into pieces and sews them together. So, for our young ones today, it is not that they understand music but they play music and the computer is arranging it for them.
“The computer will concise the bad voice and put it in line and shape and the producer helps a lot. The producer has an idea but the computer is supposed to be a model to have an idea of what a song should sound like but it is not music itself.
“You still have musical instrument. People must learn how to play musical instrument because once you know the rudiments of music, you can play several instruments.
“I play almost all musical instruments, from piano to sax, to bass guitar, guitar, clarinet, xylophone and a lot of other instruments. I didn’t want to play trumpet because I didn’t want any mark on my lips, that is the only one I avoided."
The “Joromi” “Guitar Boy” and “Mummy Water" singer is a proof that the modern world is difficult for the old school artist.
