right on the edge of disaster! I love it.
Seriously. On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Fred Heutte <ph...@sunlightdata.com> wrote: > from the Wire interview. Says it all for me. > > -------------- > > > D: Was last night the first time you've DJed with just CD decks? > > J: I think so. > > D: That's funny that you're not sure. > > J: It's different, and I really don't like it so much. Having to look at > a list of what's on the disc and pushing too many buttons. …. Vinyl, you > don't have to look at the meter. Your mind can be elsewhere, your eyes > can be elsewhere. You use your ears less in the digital format than you > do in analogue, in a vinyl situation, because your listening very much > to the frequencies to know, or the structure of the song to give you > cues for when to do what. Or how to weed away those frequencies so that > you can mix the next record in. But when you have to look at the screen > or a computer read out it's different. In some cases, it's OK, because > last night I was concerned about the vibration, because we were setting > things on the floor. But I would much prefer to use vinyl, because of > the physical aspect of connecting with this motion, this clockwise > motion of this disc, information, the frailty of it all. The needle is > just tracking on the surface of this record. And that any jolt would > totally disorient it, and everyone else, and myself. And that I think is > most reflective of the life of what we are, and who we are and how we > live. We don't control our destiny, we don't control our life, we don't > control what tomorrow is going to be. It's by coincidence. We have to > adapt. And that I think it is why I think I like vinyl the most, because > it puts you right on the edge of disaster. And that I still like. > > > -- Michael Kuszynski kuszyn...@gmail.com www.planerecordings.com New York, NY
