On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:30:09 -0700 Ken Restivo <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 05:47:59PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Hartmut Noack > > <zettberlin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >If I really believe, that an artist may have take the effort to > > >make a real > > > album, I use to buy that album as a vinyl and listen to it the > > > classical way: on a real stereo without doing anything else an > > > side by side. > > > > fetishization of a technological accident ought to be a sin, right > > up there with coveting thy neighbour's spouse. > > > > Hm, what about guitar feedback then? Or tube saturation distortion, > for that matter? Or echoplex feedback? > > There are at least a few cases where technological accidents-- or > gear being pushed beyond its boundaries-- caused a very desirable, > very musical effect. > > I think it was Brian Eno who said the appeal of distortions like tube > saturation, film grain, pixellation, tape saturation, etc., was that > it gives the impression that the emotion or meaning is so strong that > it strains or breaks the medium that's trying to convey (or contain?) > it, and that's the reason it sounds or looks so exciting. > but Paul said *fetishization* of a technological accident... while these things you list are good and have changed for example the guitar world, as a guitarist I really am bored by their fetishization - see recent thread on effected guitar recording. cheers renato _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
