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| 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... | |
| Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article) Commerical music now and then ... Has always been commercial (sellable) because it was what people wanted to listen to of what was available. For sure you can repeat fact that are not even wrong... And call that the truth... Or you can try to ... | |
| Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article) They made music because they were paid to whether by church or as often nobility. For money, the definition of commercial. No one else could afford such frivolities to commission work. However, it was also consumed by the masses .. so popular and... | |
| Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article) Operas and classical was the commercial music of it’s time. Not true... Projecting our actual economical categories on the past is not very useful... First Vivaldi, Haendel and Bach were paid by some Religious or Noble elites not by a general... | |
| Why Music Has Lost it’s Charms (Article) I never listened to popular music even young... I listened mainly choral music spanning centuries in European tradition, and Bach andother composers..... And there is indeed good popular music for sure i listened too .... I like Bob Dylan or Leo... | |
| Analog vs. digital It is always relative.... Put the best tape in a bad room and install a digital system in a room acoustically tuned for it and you will choose the digital system... What is best did not exist out of all possible specific acoustic conditions...I... | |
| Analog vs. digital I am afraid not. The first home of ignorance is our "tastes" the last home of ignorance is our "habit".... Exploring and listening experiments is the way... Our taste dont matter so much, we must play with them and not dying with only them...... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Very interesting post! thanks.... Classical for me is like Tai-Chi....Jazz is like real martial art.... In Indian music the mix between improvisation and planning is balanced , it is why this style is so deep.... None is inferior though in a... | |
| Analog vs. digital People dont understand that engineering is not sound, acoustic/-psycho-acoustic has more impact than the choice of relatively good and equivalent piece of gear, and explain sound...Electronic engineering dont explain sound at all...Electronic engi... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I think music is, ultimately and from the start, a musician language and all musicians are able to TRANSLATE one idiom to another one ... Human culture in spite of his manifested differences is universal....Consciousness is one... Then jazz, cla... | |
| Jazz for aficionados You wrote that you admire Schiff’s style. I do also and would be tempted to characterize what I hear as, not lacking, but devoid of “STYLE”. Not sure I can put what I mean into words. Incredibly dignified playing in every positive sense of the wo... |