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RE: mp3 was Re: [OM] negative films, minilabs, etc.........

Subject: RE: mp3 was Re: [OM] negative films, minilabs, etc.........
From: andrew fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:48:48 +1000
There's an insult there? Precious.
And there's no-one here called Andy :)
Just pointing out that this is a neverending cycle that we're getting caught up in. As a teenager I did not live in some magical realm of great live music and HiFi vinyl. I lived in a very ordinary world of bad garage bands and LoFi Vinyl 45's played on cheap and nasty gear - plus big 'transistor' radios picking up pirate radio stations very roughly. I was hungry for the music and less than interested in sine wave clipping. My brain made the necessary adjustments and allowances. The quality was in the experience, not the last percentage of perfection. I'm now listening to fine Jazz through a nice Dyna valve amp of the same period, ironically - but not vinyl. Too hard. Too fragile. Too much time investment for miniscule reward. It's warm enough to let me weep at the power of a great voice. When young, you are greedy and desperate for life experience and learn to savour later. You forgive or enjoy the roughness, the imperfection, the fumble. It's also typical to lose something in the maturation process. The hunger, the energy, the freshness, the surprise. The quality of fast food and fast music now is far beyond anything conceivable at that time of mine, regardless of how we might decry it's flaws because we've been around long enough to have known better. My son just emailed me from London to announced delightedly that he'd scored tickets to see the Stones at the Astoria - "an audience of only 2000" he crowed. I was able to reply smugly that it was around three times the audience (and 10 times the price) of when I first saw them. They'll be a lot tighter too now, but will there be the same rush? Similar arguments thrash around here on 'sharpness' of various lenses discussing powers of resolution beyond the ability of film or the human eye to distinguish. But leafing through a copy of August's B&W magazine (that's the American beautiful one rather than the British useful one or the Australian startling one) and I was first drawn to the luminous work of Rocky Schenck, none of whose images could be described as being sharp in any way. This person has a vision, not a recording device. An image is a 'thing in itself' rather than the event it captures. Same goes for music and just about any other attempt to 'capture.'
So, in the absence of a better aesthetic, I'll get some coffee.
AndrewF



That a very poor insult to a statement of settling for less technology
wise.
I'm growing weary of being crudely labeled Andy
Dan

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Subject: RE: mp3 was Re: [OM] negative films, minilabs, etc.........

I think that the real problem with the younger generation is
settling for convenience over quality,

Funny - that's what my parents said about me, and their's about them,
and....
Now, if I can find it here somewhere, I've got a nice quote from
Plato grumbling about the shortcomings of the young generation. Are
we getting a tad crusty here?
AndrewF
(and I thought I was a curmudgeon!)

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