11 Jul
2011
11 Jul
'11
10:16 a.m.
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 22:30:09 -0700
Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 05:47:59PM -0400, Paul Davis
wrote:
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
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Hartmut Noack
<zettberlin(a)linuxuse.de> wrote:
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.
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.