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Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
Thanks for your post... I know Coppola was an artist not a businessman, but i did know about “Heart’s of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse”   Thanks very much....  
Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
Crocodile call "art" the way they put a corpse to decay under water for some weeks before eating it... They say this is their "taste"... Music is about art and beauty and spiritual experience.... Entertainment also...But when entertainment is th... 
Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
If deludedaudiophile was knowing you he will be afraid of your approval... 😁😊      
Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
It probably has to do with the limited market for foreign language elevator music though with that shrieking in the middle it could have people reaching for the stop button. Is it sarcasm? Or is it a serious attempt to make a cheap point? Pla... 
Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
Here an example of popular music which is not a commercial product first and last...Never played on any radio and TV in US...Or in Canada... Why? a clue: the power of a business of conditioning the mind to buy meaningless products.to make them "p... 
Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
By the way this article if someone read it, is not about a nostagic old dude complaining...it is an objective description of the business power over music... The reduction of a part of popular music to commercial means and goals...This make "comm... 
Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
Wow, this guy sure has a lot of time to have listened to all ’commercial music of today’, whatever that is - I guess the music he likes is not intended to be sold - and make a blanket condemnation of all of it.Or is it more "I don’t like it so it... 
Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
If is is great music, why are none of those awful media people trying to promote it and make money off of it? Because the more higher the music qualities, the more cultutrally different the music qualities, the more it ask for an educative proc... 
Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
Great remarks...   Much of the music from the 60’s is long lost in our memories (ditto the 70’s). We remember the good stuff, or more specifically, we remember the stuff that generates the highest emotional engagement, which does not need to be... 
Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
Again, mahgister, sheet music was around way before Edison. Commercially available sheet music...hit songs of the time.. Again.... 😁😊 Sheet music was not ONLY and MAINLY a "commercial" business, it was a cultural necessity first to make playin... 
Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
The simple truth is right now, it is an amazing time to be into music. Better than ever. Pick your medium, records, CD’s, streaming. Etc etc etc! For sure, i can listen to any indian master or any Nordic jazz i wanted too... Commercial industr... 
Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
I have no problem saying there is likely great music being created today. I also have no problem saying that most of what makes it onto the radio or onto other media today is drivel. Great post! It is this radio or other media most of the time... 
Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article)
Thanks for your always kind words... Yes there is parallels between popular music now and then... But "commercial" music exist only with Edison invention... And popular crowds reaction deont change with time, what changed for the worst in " com... 
Classical Music for Aficionados
This interpretation with Klemperer and these two giant singers is out of this world ... There exist only one other interpretation perhaps rivaling it...     But the best possible  version dont exist... It will be Wunderlich and Ferrier for me... 
Analog vs. digital
After exploring and discovering acoustic/psycho-acoustic optimalization methods, mechanical one only inspired by Helmholtz in my case , i discovered why people argue so much about analog/digital and cables, which are secondary choices in term of S...