From: <eric@synthesizer.org>
quoted 5 lines you can make a fair guess that it was just overlooked.
>> you can make a fair guess that it was just overlooked.
>
> No I can't. As long as there's the possibility that the texture was
> designed exactly how it was laid down, there's no assumption to be made
> about why it sounds the way it does.
':-.
Well, that's a legitimate point of view, but to me that means abdicating
from any judgement of production (not musical) quality when you listen to a
record. Now, I'm not the high priest of production, but when I hear
something that really sounds like a glitch it's interrupting my musical
experience. On a practical note, that might mean avoiding an otherwise good
track when I'm DJing, because few people want to hear clipping noises
amplified to party volume.
quoted 3 lines You're confusing your music-making predilections with your listening
> You're confusing your music-making predilections with your listening
> experience, which tends to influence musicians' descriptions of music that
> they themselves didn't make.
Well, I'm a musician, what else can I do? If I'm going to totally suspend my
own listening criteria, I might as well just buy records at random, and say
Britney Spears is as interesting as Aphex Twin. Sure, I am listening through
the filter of my own taste and experience. But that's because a recording
(usually) contains some kind of intentionality on the part of the artist.
They're trying to communicate with me as a listener, and poor production may
get in the way of my understanding what they're attempting to say.
All the same, my musical taste doesn't seem to interfere with listening to
the full-spectrum, total surround sounds in my garden/street/etc.
quoted 2 lines why should anyone care whether you would make the same choices if
> why should anyone care whether you would make the same choices if
> you were the composer?
The same reason I ask for comments and feedback on my own material, to make
it sound good. Maybe it's a valid 'choice' to leave digital artefacts
scattered at random across a CD, but then it's an equally valid choice not
to bother playing in time or in tune on conventional instruments. I suspect
you can tell the difference between a deliberately twisted rendition of
something and one that is merely played badly, the same way you can tell the
difference between a kid getting their first violin lesson and Yehudi
Mehuhin.
I'm trying to arrange some public download space at the moment, so please
feel free to criticise my music when I post a link to it. I can take it as
well as give it out :)
Anig Browl
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