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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: It takes balls to shop (never mind the nuts)
Post Subject: what's the problem.Posted by Dominic on: 1/17/2007
That each piece of music tells something different, in a different way.
Part of the fun of certain songs for instance works because of the way it troubles the electro mechaincs of a table radio.
Some artists like to play in a big hall with a juicy echo. Some like nearly anechoic studios.
It seems to me that it is a tall order indeed to satisfy, not the technical demands of reproducing, but to serve the musical flavour to provide the 'right' contrasts and resonances, and even distortion, that the artist(s) were playing to. Or even just mixed to.
Have i just been making excuses?
What does it really mean to operate at higher musical consciousness?
Why don't musicians speak the same language as audiophiles, even though they love music just as much.
Is it a false dichotomy and it's just easier to live and express in terms of the dichotomy?
I feel it might be like Lao Tzu said: "he who can describe it does not know". There's this kind of division between the articulation and the understanding of music, and i find that the musicians' dialect/lexicon of half measures, key, minor 5th chords etc. just throws my understanding off. Even though I know 'what' these things are, i find that the perspective of the dialog changes to something possibly unhealthy, if not for most people, then at least for me. Some artists, and diletantes for that matter, speak of music as math. Yes, it is. Sort of. Music of everykind, has to do with flow, in time. Math has to do with answers. Music can successfully be dealt with in terms of mathematical ideas; multiplication, addition, subdivision, differentials, vectors, negative, positive. There is a subconscious understanding of these principles at work while we listen, and that's why it works to think of it that way. But that is really just the dipthongs and umlauts, while fully useful, and a great part of the character of the language aren't what the message is.
Perhaps i've been going on, i'm sorry. I don't know where i'm going with this, but some fruit to bring out the flavour in the pork can't be a bad idea.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site