Sir Mustapha
Group: Musicians
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Posted: May 22 2011, 17:57 |
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Quote (starfish @ May 20 2011, 17:39) | The sound quality is never as good as can be achieved on CD (or FLAC, or DVD-Audio, or whatever your format of preference), they take up space, they're an absolute nightmare! |
I think they are as close as you can get to having a physical version of music. CDs and digital files merely record a representation of sound, whereas a vinyl disc has the music carved into it. It's roughly like having an ancient etched stone table instead of having a photograph of one. But that's way too much into the "mystical" side of it, and I don't follow that like very much. I enjoy LPs, but I would never swap my digital files for them.
Now THIS? This is a dream.
Regarding the "future" of music, I witnessed a very interesting scene yesterday. My theatre colleagues (I'm merely a student, not a professional, mind) were talking about a recently formed rock band from my country that happened to post a video on YouTube and became popular nearly overnight; the girl said her friends had posted the video on their respective Facebooks, and the thing just grew huge.
This is what I'm talking about. Of course, the band certainly had a greater edge over the others because they had enough funding to make a video. But this "channel" of distribution is something completely novel, and people are learning to use it -- both listeners and musicians. Of course there are many people who still only listen to the radio and buy big corporation singles, but the tendency is there, and it's rising.
I think what we need, essentially, is enthusiasm. We have a future ahead of us, and it's up for us to make it. Let's accept it with enthusiasm and make the best of it, encouraging musicians who are posting free music for the love of it (*plug*cough*plug*), and the ones that want to make a decent living out of it through legal, ethical and creative means, and let's cut out the slavery and the indecency as much as we can.
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