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Re: [microsound] politics of digital audio reflux



I cant believe someone can say analog is freedom.

He must be clearly a first-world-huge-salary-cheap-machines individual.

I vote against analog as freedom.

Hernan

www.cooptrol.com



> Analog is not freedom for poorer folks.
>
> Owning the means of production is freedom. Digital allows the greatest
> access to the means of production, because you can either use open
> source or steal all the software you need, and a 2nd hand computer can
> be obtained dirt cheap. For instance, when I killed my laptop (with a
> spilled glass of wine! zzzzfhjkfdgpfft...) I bought a $50 computer and
> have managed to already produce 3-4 hot tracks. People are shocked
> when I mentioned I produced them on a $50 Dell with a PIII.
>
> How much, on the other hand, does analog gear, say mixer + tape
> recorder + tape, cost?
>
> ~David
>
> On 10/5/06, Jan L. <jan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> ahh, the old 'technology moving fast' argument. it is rubbish.
>> technology and developments is not something that just happens out of
>> the blue. and I find it amusing with all the bold statements when
>> microsound as a whole is fully dependent on products from large
>> commercial empires.
>>
>> digital audio exist because the industry wanted something that would
>> scale to mass-markets. automated quality control was hard to do with
>> vinyl.
>>
>> I currently use digital for editing and as a multitrack recorder but
>> these days with care to avoid the oh so typical digital audible
>> signatures. and I always master to an analog master tape recorder.
>> even if I digital is the target media - I then re-encode from tape.
>> this process is not perfect - but the end result is realtively free
>> of the common but oh-so-boring digital signatures.
>>
>> analog is freedom. you can build the equipment yourself out of tubes,
>> transistors and whatever.
>>
>> analog is freedom. remove the digital distortions forced upon us by
>> the large commecrial interests and immerse yourself in true
>> expressive sound-art.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 3 okt 2006 kl. 14.24 skrev Michael Edwards:
>>
>> >> that up), and your equipment doesn't even know what sd2 files are any
>> >> more.  good luck trying to remaster that record.  whereas with
>> >> analogue,
>> >> you put a magnetic pickup to the media, and provided you get some
>> >> basics
>> >> like speed right, you have your music.  adding to this it should be
>> >
>> > I take your point but it's not quite true, IMO.  OK digital
>> > technology is moving faster than analogue did but, in the case of
>> > an old analogue master tape, if I can get my hands on a tape
>> > machine in 10 years (or even now in some places) I'm not so sure
>> > the tape heads will be aligned and all the analogue circuitry in
>> > working order.
>> >
>> > Best,
>> >
>> >       Michael
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > _____________________________________________________________________
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>> > Programme Director
>> > MSc in Digital Composition and Performance
>> > http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/Postgraduate/dcp.htm
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