Re: Glories of Materialism

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 23:00:37 MDT


At 06:28 PM 7/1/02 -0700, Lee Corbin wrote:

>But exactly to what have I been listening in the last half
>hour? Not physical musicians, to be sure, but a *digital*
>recording!

I assume you mean a CD, rather than (what would be *really* interesting, I
think, in the context of your argument) a synthesizer that took the cold,
bare score and transformed it into sublime sounds. It's exactly the fact (I
assume) that a human performer adds all kinds of tacit knowledge and
passion, as well as random deviations that could be added to the
synthesizer program, which makes Jackie du Pré's Elgar tear-making and
hair-raising.

Damien Broderick



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