Re: [microsound] the great depression of experimental music?

[Michal Seta <mis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"chthonic" <chthonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


> however, as an artist, particularly what one might call a multimedia 
> artist, i *like* having my music attached to a physical object.  

It's strange how the times have changed.  For (insert your favourite
timespan intelligent life has been in existence) years music has been
a social activity, often engaging both performers and the audience and
mostly done with bodies and/or physical objects.  Today, we 'attach'
it to objects.  And only the past 30 or so years influenced such
blasphemy. 

> 
> furthermore, as a consumer, i prefer the sound of CDs over mp3s, 

as a non-consumer I prefer going to a live performance
However, if mp3 isn't enough, there are other codecs that output much
better quality: ogg - lossy but better than mp3 , flac - lossless, and
many many more. 

> i prefer being able to hold and look at a printed object instead of 
> scrolling artwork or liner notes on a screen, and i just like having 
> music centered on something *other* the the goddamn computer.  

Well, those CDs you're buying came stright from the goddamn puter.

a computer could be, and I admit, it not always is, playing a role of
an instrument, effect box, even composer.  What comes out of it,
eventually moves air particles and is no different from your next-door
guitar hero or somesuch.

> if digital distribution meant that the files downloaded are full, 
> uncompressed audio files, and complete artwork is printed at the 
> point of purchase on offset-quality printers, that might seem like an 
> option to pursue.  until then it seems like a truncated, diminished 
> form to me.

Just because you can buy a CD full of 44100hz 16bit data does not mean
that the music is in some higher form at this time.  Do you really
prefer a CD than sitting in the concert hall (or whatver venue of
preference) and listening to the music?  The glossy crap paper of CD
inserts, the mass production of 16bit audio data is what I would call
truncated, diminished form.  

bleh!

../MiS


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