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In Reply to: RE: Article on Tapes I wrote posted by alias@hollowearth.org on January 12, 2009 at 00:57:53
I love the second paragraph.
"The notion that technology is always improving is riddled with holes. Music has suffered in the digital age, and we should lay the blame on formats. Both the CD and its bastard spawn, the mp3, have made convenience the priority, but at the expense of factors crucial to the consumer’s identification with recorded music. Music was first disassociated with imagery, and its tangibility reduced with the mass abandonment of vinyl in favour of the CD. Then it was disembodied, made ethereal, and the fundamental connection to its author ruptured with the arrival of the mp3. This break is made literal in the process of digital encoding; one is no longer ‘listening’ to music, but ‘hearing’ an aural snapshot of it.
This explains quite well how music progressed to mere sound. I called it the the de-evolution of Sound Quality.
From my old website and my current eBook "An Analog Lovers Survival Guide":
History of the De-Evolution of Sound Quality
1. From Tubes to Solid State.
2. From 2 Track to 4 Track Reel to Reel
3. From real time to high-speed duplication.
4. From RCA Living Stereo to RCA Dynagroove LPs.
5. From Virgin Vinyl to recycled Vinyl.
6. From analog to digitally mastered LPs
7. From analog to digitally recorded LPs
8. From LPs to CDs.
And I didn't know that King Crimson's Live album Starless and Bible Black was released on vinyl after being recorded on stage by the band itself using a Walkman WM-D6C. WOW!
Great article!
Happy listening,
Teresa
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