In regard to memory and recognition of objects - I would imagine that the more factors you have to help with recall the better. You don't have time for auditory so we pretty much have only some sort of visual recognition to rely on. Symbols (artwork/logos, etc), colour (artwork, center labels, etc.), and text all help
I'm not a neurologist but I'd assume that the more "flags" you are given to use as tools of memory the easier and faster, an possibly more, recall you will have anyone got 3 cents change for a nickel? MEK Benoît Pueyo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/03/2008 06:06:05 AM: > Interesting points have been raised here. Actually I think cover artwork > is the easiest way to remind a track for a vinyl collector. > > When i raised the 1000+ records in my collection, i still could (by > seeing a record artwork or listening to it) remember by heart the name > of EPs, label cat, and most of the time the titles of the highlight > tracks. This was in the early 2000s. For example, at that time the funny > thing i could do is associate this kindof info with almost the full > tracklisting of a Jeff Mills DJ set heard at the radio or in a party. > Now i have raised the 2000+ records, and as labels are opening and > closing so fast, most of these new records i get are from different > labels (which was not the case some years ago, when there were fewer and > bigger labels representing at least 3/4 of the records i bought). At > that point the memory trick is just impossible anymor,e though i still > know at least the artist name and the label of what i have. > > Sorry for these long words, but I think my personnal situation shows > something more general : electronic music has completely bursted in term > of quantity of good labels and producers. And digital download + file > sharing makes you able to have 2000+ records in one month, while it took > me 10 years to buy them on vinyl. Which leads to the fact that now > people own many tracks, and got them so fast that they hardly remember > them. Then it is impossible to remind everyhting very clearly. > > Thats why associating a picture with sounds eases the memory thing, and > that the picture/record browsing can make you think to a track you would > not have thought to. > > The track selection process has evolved. Digital DJs have so many files > that they can forget to play the 'good' record, and at the same time > constrain themselves to the files they know they will work and they can > access easily. The 'old school' DJs has to make two selections : first, > what he brings in his flycase, second, what he plays in a party among > this first selection. To me, above the Djing technique, this selection > constraint was the most important thing to appreciate a DJ in a party, > and digital DJing has removed that. > > Cover browsing would partly solve that problem IMO. > > > -- > Benoît. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > > > > Phew! (good job I'm off on holiday for 3 weeks on Friday as that's > 313ed me out). > > > > > >
