Well, this is from the "oh wow the world changes interesting ways during one's life" department. Having embarked on a journey of producing and composing recorded artifacts --
I see more clearly now the distinction between a recording artist and a performing artist. I've always favored improvisation and performing, and could never get past the field recording as the only way to capture things. Recordings of this sort are a point-in-time affixed to a repeatable medium.
This use of recording is in contradistinction to making electronic music - which feels like crafting a static object- which is deployed temporally.
A lot of artists have left this distinction behind and blur it in live performances and in their recordings. I'm thinking of having seen #sleafordmods and #thegarden recently -- these shows blend backing tracks and performance like you wouldn't have seen when I was gigging.
And I think of #thefall when I consider how repetition is so much more than copy/paste.