If Music Could Talk

Flex wrote: ↑

19 Jan 2018, 4:53pm

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

19 Jan 2018, 4:44pm

A former friend refused to consider eBooks because he maintained that reading was also a tactile experience. Feeling the paper was vital. I shrugged. I can read paper, I can read off a screen. I'm just trying to get my eyes sync'd up with the words. I'm the same way with music. I just don't get any thrill beyond hearing the music itself.

There's some evidence that people have better concentration and retention, especially when navigating longer texts, when reading on paper vs digitally: https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... r-screens/

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

19 Jan 2018, 5:09pm

I've come across that argument before—actually, I think I've read that article you linked—and my curiosity is whether the decreased retention, etc. is tied to us learning to read on paper, that it's our formative medium. Would kids and adults who learned to read on tablets show better results? We're still a few years away from being able to test that notion.

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

19 Jan 2018, 4:44pm

Kory wrote: ↑

19 Jan 2018, 4:29pm

I'd like to do this for space, but there's too much visceral pleasure from looking at the insert as I pull it off the shelf (especially a box set made with superb materials).

A former friend refused to consider eBooks because he maintained that reading was also a tactile experience. Feeling the paper was vital. I shrugged. I can read paper, I can read off a screen. I'm just trying to get my eyes sync'd up with the words. I'm the same way with music. I just don't get any thrill beyond hearing the music itself.

Plus with digi files it's just a list of titles rather than colored spines and so I lose track of where I am and there's the perception of too much choice. It's much harder to look at the whole collection at once when your list starts at "A" every time.

Put iTunes into Album mode, so you see the album covers on the screen, and start scrolling—fast or slow—and something grabs your eye.

The older I get, the less romantic I get about the consumption of culture. And I could well be shutting myself off from different aspects of experience because of it—such as the tactile with reading or the visual with listening to an album—but it's just not important to me. Every time I play a lossy song, Neil Young hits another bum note.

Kory wrote: ↑

19 Jan 2018, 8:00pm

Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑

19 Jan 2018, 4:44pm

Kory wrote: ↑

19 Jan 2018, 4:29pm

I'd like to do this for space, but there's too much visceral pleasure from looking at the insert as I pull it off the shelf (especially a box set made with superb materials).

A former friend refused to consider eBooks because he maintained that reading was also a tactile experience. Feeling the paper was vital. I shrugged. I can read paper, I can read off a screen. I'm just trying to get my eyes sync'd up with the words. I'm the same way with music. I just don't get any thrill beyond hearing the music itself.

Plus with digi files it's just a list of titles rather than colored spines and so I lose track of where I am and there's the perception of too much choice. It's much harder to look at the whole collection at once when your list starts at "A" every time.

Put iTunes into Album mode, so you see the album covers on the screen, and start scrolling—fast or slow—and something grabs your eye.

The older I get, the less romantic I get about the consumption of culture. And I could well be shutting myself off from different aspects of experience because of it—such as the tactile with reading or the visual with listening to an album—but it's just not important to me. Every time I play a lossy song, Neil Young hits another bum note.

I disapprove of iTunes. It's a bad experience.

Red Angel wrote: ↑

04 Feb 2018, 11:51am

Sessionography is certainly a great idea, it can be used to solve many doubts. For example when it was recorded "London's Burning" (live) b-side of Remote Control? Beaconsfield recordings: they are often referred to as 26 April 977, but according to BMC on that date the band was on tour in France....

WestwayKid wrote: ↑

04 Feb 2018, 6:35pm

Red Angel wrote: ↑

04 Feb 2018, 11:51am

Sessionography is certainly a great idea, it can be used to solve many doubts. For example when it was recorded "London's Burning" (live) b-side of Remote Control? Beaconsfield recordings: they are often referred to as 26 April 977, but according to BMC on that date the band was on tour in France....

I’ve made some initial attempts, but so hard to find good info.

Red Angel wrote: ↑

08 Mar 2018, 2:01pm

I think that an important aspect is to know who plays and what on every song. For example, on Capital Radio EP Wikipedia (and others) writes Terry Chimes on drums, while the official website writes: ....this EP included Capital Radio, the first song to feature drummer Topper Headon . Curious is not it?

Kory wrote: ↑

09 Mar 2018, 6:39pm

Topper's first recording was CCR, if memory serves.