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(a)linuxuse.de> 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.
-ken