In Reply to: Double blind tests... posted by KlausR. on May 17, 2007 at 00:16:52:
Or, simply care about them. I really can't make out any of the reasons beyond that surface-level symptom.My reactionary guess would be that the function(s) of listening, as an activity, have undergone or are busy undergoing change - a bit in the same way as it went with TV, from intentionally watching specific programs together to the present-day incorporation of the telly (that's on most of the time) into the habitus of everyday life within the decentered space of one's home.
What people clearly seem to care about though is picture (visual image) quality. That's the frontline. What it has to do with some broader transformations in human life, I'm not sure about; but already from the late '60s on Luigi Nono, the composer, grew increasingly concerned about our diminishing ability to listen (as an existential category rather than anything about psychoacoustics or goldenearism). As a consequence he switched from rather straightforward avantguarde methods and Darmstadt social radicalism to approaches that highlighted this preoccupation of his, away from the goals and more on to processes.
But that's another topic.
TL
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- Re: "...does the public in general recognize the advantages and benefits of new formats. Apparently it doesn't." - tlyyra 05:45:08 05/17/07 (6)
- Re: "...does the public in general recognize the advantages and benefits of new formats. Apparently it doesn't." - KlausR. 08:06:23 05/17/07 (5)
- Re: "...does the public in general recognize the advantages and benefits of new formats. Apparently it doesn't." - tlyyra 09:18:14 05/17/07 (4)
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