Mr. Liudas Motekaitis wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The other point is that I, too, would always rather have a not perfect live acoustic performance of music that was composed to be
heard
that way, and believe that the music is much less valuable without the dimension of performer interpretation applied.
Tim
Just to tag on a thought to this, I think of a beautiful recording I have of Richter playing Bach's prelude and fuge in C major from the Well Tempered Clavier Book 1. Part of the beauty lies in the fact that the human playing this piece is giving effort, and a lot of it, mind you, to play at times as evenly and as quietly as possible. To do anything to adhere most similarly to your intent is magnificent. The magnificence in the art of this musical performance is that it is NOT quantized to perfection and that there is no 'Humanization error' applied to an otherwise mathematically perfect rhythm, but that we are going from the other direction: the imperfect human striving
It may not be quantized to perfection, but it IS frozen in time and remains as perfect as it is for people to listen to for as long as there are means (electronic, mind you) to reproduce that sound. A single performance, frozen in time, is as unnatural in its way as electronic representations through midi.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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