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chthonic streams
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Mon, 8 Nov 2004 22:27:50 -0500
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Re: [idm] analogue artifacts
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quoted 4 lines . if you consider a hiss that>. if you consider a hiss that >drowns out your high frequencies to be "warm" well i suppose that's >your perogative, but i for one would rather hear the recording than >artifacts of the recording media.
perhaps this is more a question for the microsound list, but why can't those artifacts (such as hiss, distortion, tape saturation) be considered part of the music, even part of the composition? digital processes create artifacts too, sometimes to interesting effect. several times i've heard crappy realaudio samples online, bought the CD, and then found i actually preferred the .ra files because the processing screwed up the sound in a way that was cooler than the "real" recording. d. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org