[LAU] Is this the band Sky? Was: Text-based sound visualisation? Re: Linux-audio-user Digest, Vol 52, Issue 32

[Ken Restivo]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:34:29PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 21:08 +0000, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:52:15PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >  
> > > I can recommend Mozart's Requiem (Philips Classic Productions 1991.
> > > Note! I hate Mozart too, but I love this recording. The Academy of St.
> > > Martin in the Fields and Sir Neville Marriner are geniuses.)
> > 
> > Beh...
> > 
> > For Mozart's Requiem there's nothing coming close to the
> > version by Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale and La
> > Chapelle Royale, Harmonia Mundi, 1997. 
> > 
> > 
> > Ciao,
> 
> I take you at your words, since the mastering of, at least the Philips
> CD I own, isn't perfect, but the musicians and the director did a very
> good job.
> 
> I really don't like Mozart, but I like this interpretation.
> 
> To be fair. If you should be right, the Philips recording I'm referring
> to was recorded in 1990, perhaps the recording you mentioned was done in
> 1996. 6 years are a long time. Humans become better from generation to
> generation, excluding mainstream chart music ;), dunno why they become
> more worse from generation to generation.
> 
> Unfortunately people need to earn money to survive. IMO Nigel Kennedy is
> a very gifted musician, but I never ever will buy or even listen to his
> recordings, since everything I ever heard was mixed as mainstream chart
> music, but his playing was very good as far as I was able to listen.
> 
> Btw. I make very simple pop music myself, I like this, but I don't like
> mixes of classical music and simple pop music. Just my personal taste.
> 
> "Cobbler, stick to your trade."
> 
> Pop is ok, classic is ok, but any kind of cross over until now IMO
> failed.
> 

Um, really?

What about prog-rock?

-ken