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In the Forum: Playback Listening
In the Thread: The open project: a lateral cross-injection.
Post Subject: Necessity vs choicePosted by decoud on: 4/6/2013
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The point is that spatial separation is not necessary in music in the way it is necessary for visual representation. A single musical instrument is -- more or less -- a point source, and it need be no less expressive for that, including in relation to harmonic blending, whereas no-one could ever do a one dimensional painting (though of course one might do a piece of one dimensional installation art).  Yes, composers might use the spatial separation that an orchestra enforces on them, but they do not have a choice here, and to the extent to which they do have a choice they do not do that much with it. For example, I do not know of any significant composer who shuffles the positions of individuals in an orchestra dynamically to an expressive end, would move a single performer around a stage, etc. And imagine for a minute that someone came up with a way of generating the sound of an orchestra from a single point: would people really *necessarily* speak of this as a defect? On the contrary, I can imagine many telling us what a revolution it was, the grand unification of music, all of sound channelled through the single portal of God, etc.
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