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In the Thread: Macondo's Axioms: Horn-loaded acoustic systems
Post Subject: The Distance Between: Language and SciencePosted by Paul S on: 10/10/2021
For sure, a lot happens between The Event and The Listener. To start with, it seems like a miracle that two people familiar with the score could recognize "it" and agree on it, via any sort of playback whatsoever, given the sorts of variables we talk about, including manipulating the score itself, the musicians, and instruments, and singers, the venues, the recording techniques, equipment, sessions, various and sundry storage media and their implementations, random "playback" systems and spaces, and - not least - us. So it's swell we don't often get totally preoccupied with this stuff as we listen, but we tend to focus (more or less) on the parts we recognize as Music. And I hope it is a satisfactory/pleasurable measure of Musical qualities that we "bring out" while listening with our own versions of playback. Given the vast number of variables involved, it's no wonder we can't get and keep them all under control all the time. And isn't it grand that we can (somehow) come up with a way to get both insight into and pleasure from Music from a playback that remains basically "the same" for years on end. At least, that's how it's "worked" for me. It's been many years since I adopted a "just go with it" quotient that helps me to implement changes when I don't undersand the "science" involved. It's not that I "don't care about the science"; but I don't care about the science.
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