killog123@juno.com wrote:
quoted 13 lines mp3's are oohhh kaayyyy listening fodder>mp3's are oohhh kaayyyy listening fodder
>but seriously folks...cdr's fucking suckkk
>
>have fun with your modern cassette tapes
>
>real compact disks and long playing vinyl
>
>do
>and
>will
>rule
>
>FOREVER!
i'm sure this has been debated here ad nauseam, and is slightly O/T
from IDM per se, but i somewhat support this.
mp3's are nice to check something out but the sonic change is
massive, and the quality is not what it should be. even in cases of
really excellent conversion rates, it's almost like the music has
been run through some kind of subtle but definitely perceptible
filter. as an artist, i hate the thought of slaving away on a track
for months and then having it compressed down to something so
bad-sounding, or at best, as though it was remastered without my
approval. back to the IDM connection, it was reported that autechre
sent out promos of 'draft 7.30' on cassette as a foil against
pre-release mp3 encoding and proliferation.
it's been said that CDR's actually lose something in the process as
well, and from listening and speaking to some people i'd have to
agree.
i also support CDs and vinyl as "art objects", which can be seen as
multimedia if enough care and attention is paid to the design and
execution. and of course the potential bundling of CD-ROM files on
discs and bonus DVDs added bring this even further into reality. i'm
for all the above in the name of art however, not as some lame
"marketing ploy" to entice people.
d.
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