Not even needing the hiss or crackle, just the atmosphere created by the surface, the sound of the space created by the needle/record/platter motor. A deep rumble. Laptop performances in clubs make the place space feel very empty, like being in a vacuum and needing to pop your ears, or surrounded by people who are dancing, but dancing in the same room but at a different time, and you're kind of on your own. You know, like there's so much silence comes from an mp3/laptop that you can't hear the music... The flip is like having an aircon unit humming outside your room all day and night, not too intrusive and you can get used to it, then it stops, and it's like something uncomfortable has suddenly been turned on. Silence being deafening and all that...You can definately feel a record beyond it's audible inscriptions...
> Yeah, but an mp3 of vinyl crackle would be a compressed, digital > approximation of the analogue > source, so (assuming this argument holds water) would still sound less > 'warm' than a slab of vinyl > with nothing but, err, hiss and crackle on it. Like some uber-mnml m-nus > release ;) > > But anyway, this is getting waaaaaaay too zen for me. > > N > >> Perhaps playing a silent record is going to far :) ... but it's a fair >> point. >> >> Still, if your file's digitized from vinyl you would get all the >> benefits of the medium in the audio quality too, I guess? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: pauley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 04 January 2008 13:35 >> To: 313@hyperreal.org >> Subject: [Fwd: Re: (313) Digital Djing] >> >> >> Just reading this >> http://www.cybernetic-broadcasting.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=12749&p=3 >> >> It got me to thinking about laptop preformances sounding so sterile and >> thin, especially over a club PA where you need to feel part of the >> sound...I wonder if playing a blank sided record through the PA at the >> same time would fill in that space that seems empty with mp3/laptop, so >> you feel that 'inaudible' record rumble? >> >> How much of the preceived audio loss of mp3 in a club is actually >> record/surface/player noise? >> >>> >>> >>> Some interesting views from the artist-label point of view come up >>> here. >>> >>> From a consumer's point of view I'd say that vinyl is not the only >>> area of life where we are facing a transition from physical to digital >> >>> objects. The same problems come up with things like books. I have two >>> opinions on the whole thing. I buy quite a lot of vinyl (I'm not a >>> collector as such but many of the people who know me would completely >>> disagree), my house is full of the stuff. I'm also quite computer >>> literate and have all my digital stuff well managed. >>> >>> As time goes on I'm less and less likely to buy vinyl, unless it's a >>> must have release. I'm less tied to that physical object and the huge >>> advantage to having everything digital is that I can have access to it >> >>> pretty much anytime, there and then. Since managing all my music >>> digitally (digitised vinyl and downloads) I listen to the music I buy >>> a lot lot more and for the digital stuff the total cost of the music I >> >>> buy has dropped considerably (for the same amount purchased). >>> >>> Now, I don't know how representative I am of the market for techno/ >>> house out there but I know a lot of friends who used to spend all >>> their money on this stuff and now they've moved on in life (jobs, >>> kids, houses etc) don't buy music at all because of the cost/space etc >> >>> of vinyl. Because of digital I'll never get to that point where I'll >>> stop so in a sense digital could be a way of retaining some part of a >>> lost market. >>> >>> All that said I'll be very very sad when vinyl disappears but I am >>> resigned to it going eventually. >>> >>> robin... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > >
