Interesting idea.... but i think it only exists now because its relatively fresh. Are novels not stories then....? Because before we wrote shit down, we told stories, orally.
And that existed for onger than us writing them down has (i suspect, but i haven’t done any research, so i’m happy to be wrong and corrected)
Interesting idea.... but i think it only exists now because its relatively fresh. Are novels not stories then....? Because before we wrote shit down, we told stories, orally.
And that existed for onger than us writing them down has (i suspect, but i haven’t done any research, so i’m happy to be wrong and corrected)
At it’s core, isn’t recorded music very similar to the idea of all the bach, mozart etc... they had ideas, they recorded them in the only way possible at the time, through notation. Which then allowed those musical ideas to be reproduced. It actually existed without being played - we’ve just improved the method of notation.
But i totally get your point. I’d never considered it that way. I just don’t care about the distinction so much - i’m too busy enjoying Doris Duke to be thinking about. Thanks!
Novels (well, most novels...) are of course stories, but writing and then print sure did change things. And yes, musical notation definitely changed things and drove all sorts of enormous change (if you're curious, Theodore Adorno had polemical but thoughtful things to say about all this...). But sound-recording seems different from notation...a huge earthquake we haven't yet really measured. For example, it seems that everywhere we now go we are bombarded with recorded music we did not choose to listen to, with all sorts of effects....restaurants, waiting rooms, grocery stores, recently even gas stations...what does all of that mean, or do to us? in the history of humans it's all incredibly recent....again, not necessarily "bad" -- whatever that might mean...but certainly significant in all sorts of ways....
Music as a commodity vs music of the spheres. If it were not for recorded music we would not have the privilege of hearing artists that perform live rarely in the USA and elsewhere for that matter.
Yeah, i’m with you. I guess music to me is just organised (ie, directed by human) sound waves, put together in a defined and loosely repeatable way, to express something about what it’s like to be human and alive. Or to make one shake one’s rump. Whether that’s fluctuating current, magnet and some material or wood and air, the air moves and we perceive it as music. As to the elevator music thing... why do you think there’s so many psychos running shit. To much canned music!!
What about podcasts? I’ve been doing a family podcast over the summer & most of the subjects are of things related to my feelings about just about everything!
It’s a form of “permanent” record of my opinions & thoughts that can & will be shared by my kids to their kids.
Interesting idea.... but i think it only exists now because its relatively fresh. Are novels not stories then....? Because before we wrote shit down, we told stories, orally.
And that existed for onger than us writing them down has (i suspect, but i haven’t done any research, so i’m happy to be wrong and corrected)
At it’s core, isn’t recorded music very similar to the idea of all the bach, mozart etc... they had ideas, they recorded them in the only way possible at the time, through notation. Which then allowed those musical ideas to be reproduced. It actually existed without being played - we’ve just improved the method of notation.
But i totally get your point. I’d never considered it that way. I just don’t care about the distinction so much - i’m too busy enjoying Doris Duke to be thinking about. Thanks!
Novels (well, most novels...) are of course stories, but writing and then print sure did change things. And yes, musical notation definitely changed things and drove all sorts of enormous change (if you're curious, Theodore Adorno had polemical but thoughtful things to say about all this...). But sound-recording seems different from notation...a huge earthquake we haven't yet really measured. For example, it seems that everywhere we now go we are bombarded with recorded music we did not choose to listen to, with all sorts of effects....restaurants, waiting rooms, grocery stores, recently even gas stations...what does all of that mean, or do to us? in the history of humans it's all incredibly recent....again, not necessarily "bad" -- whatever that might mean...but certainly significant in all sorts of ways....
Music as a commodity vs music of the spheres. If it were not for recorded music we would not have the privilege of hearing artists that perform live rarely in the USA and elsewhere for that matter.
Well, it sells groceries...
Yeah, i’m with you. I guess music to me is just organised (ie, directed by human) sound waves, put together in a defined and loosely repeatable way, to express something about what it’s like to be human and alive. Or to make one shake one’s rump. Whether that’s fluctuating current, magnet and some material or wood and air, the air moves and we perceive it as music. As to the elevator music thing... why do you think there’s so many psychos running shit. To much canned music!!
:)
Bring on the vitality....;)
What about podcasts? I’ve been doing a family podcast over the summer & most of the subjects are of things related to my feelings about just about everything!
It’s a form of “permanent” record of my opinions & thoughts that can & will be shared by my kids to their kids.