Wed Jun 12, 2013 2:05 pm
rubot wrote:Love this quote by the way:I think the digital world suffers from being just so literal, so deliberate and sober. As with digital photography, people have gotten used to applying simulated filters onto their pictures just to inject a bit of romance into the thing, because the raw pictures are so flat. But in the analog realm these beautiful things just happen by themselves without your conscious effort. You could say the wobbles and flutters in our music are equivalent to something like weeds overgrowing an old building. Nobody puts the weeds there, but nature comes along and makes the scene very tragic and beautiful.
Wed Jun 12, 2013 3:28 pm
vanlorne wrote:rubot wrote:Love this quote by the way:I think the digital world suffers from being just so literal, so deliberate and sober. As with digital photography, people have gotten used to applying simulated filters onto their pictures just to inject a bit of romance into the thing, because the raw pictures are so flat. But in the analog realm these beautiful things just happen by themselves without your conscious effort. You could say the wobbles and flutters in our music are equivalent to something like weeds overgrowing an old building. Nobody puts the weeds there, but nature comes along and makes the scene very tragic and beautiful.
You know the artwork inside the album and on the sleeves, etc. Isn't this digital with a lot of simulated filters applied?
Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:45 pm
Solynth wrote:Vostok wrote:what if they released a boxset of 'old tunes'
and it was just tracks like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsBvIkk7tto
I'd buy it in a second.
Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:18 pm
You could say the wobbles and flutters in our music are equivalent to something like weeds overgrowing an old building. Nobody puts the weeds there, but nature comes along and makes the scene very tragic and beautiful.