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In Reply to: Engagement factor... posted by Budrew on February 13, 2007 at 16:42:54:
I agree entirely. My favorite metaphor is still model railroads. As I've written here several times, every year we wander down to Springfield, MA to the huge model railroad show and look at spectacular layouts with trains and buildings and landscape that in some cases brilliantly imitates the real thing. We are totally engaged, as you say. It can be quite beautiful. It is a different kind of engagement than we have with real trains, which a mile away from our house still cause the foundation to vibrate. I think some of the engagement with model trains is fascination with imitation; while the engagement with the real trains late at night is somewhat more fundamental! But as you rightly say, engagement is engagement; and they are not unrelated. And I think, as an aside, that audio that prioritizes engagement is on the wiser track.I love audio at its best. It enables me to hear music I will never be able to hear live; the imitation is sometimes uncanny; and even when it is not, I find I am generally much engaged with the music, even from the shiney discs. But it is good for the brain to be reminded now and again by a half-decently played clarinet or train rumbling nearby of the Necessary Angel of Reality who hovers above us.
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