179,854Messages
9,130Senders
30Years
342mboxes

← back to listing · view thread

From:
Eylon Israeli
To:
Sugatis ,
Date:
Fri, 22 Mar 1996 14:00:03 +0200
Subject:
Re: (idm) Pitch up, pitch down, pitch all round...
Msg-Id:
<199603221213.PAA22466@actcom.co.il>
Mbox:
idm.9603.gz
At 01:11 AM 3/22/96 -0800, Sugatis wrote:
quoted 11 lines Now see here. If I were to do a recording as a music artist, I would>Now see here. If I were to do a recording as a music artist, I would >certainly intend for someone to get a specific kind of listening experience >out of it (even if it were me, which, if I were to record music, it surely >would be), and for this I would set a certain tempo and pitch to my music >at which it would be played back in order to acheive the desired effect. >This would in my opinion be counteracted by playing back the recording at >half speed or 118x speed or whatever... while it would make for some neat >fuel for Cagean musique concrete. But hey, the point is, don't have debates >here over what sounds better when played at what speed... it's ok if you >want to pitch things in wierd ways, but you know, the songs weren't really >designed that way, now were they?
But with that you're also throwing outa da window all DJs and their great work which mostly involves doing to songs what was not ment to be done. Let's just accept the fact that once a piece of art is given to public it will be always twisted beyond recognizion but that's what makes the world go round. Regs, snowjob@actcom.co.il The Morpheus Equation: Start + Middle + End = Sand