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In the Forum: Audio Discussions
In the Thread: The Opera Room
Post Subject: This it truely huge and great subject.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/7/2011
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 Paul S wrote:
It is stupid, of course, but still we persist in comparing "live" and "reproduced" sound.  But NO ONE EVER confuses video with life…

I disagree with this statement. I would argue that it “in a way” reversed. I said “in a way” as it is very loaded subject and I can write 100.000.000 words book about it and still would say nothing about the complexity of the subject.

The whole idea of cinematographic or theatrical presentation is not to persuade the viewer that depicted is live. When you watch a good cartoon do you feel a temptation to compare it to life? The reason I brought cartoons is because it is in a way a highest form of cinematographic/theatrical presentation, the pure metaphor engine with no boundary to reality. Let take a classic example, where do you see any reference to reality in here?


Well, the reference to reality to reality is there but it is not in the presentation of sound of image but in your own live experiences, would it be real or imaginary.

So, the approximation to “live” in cinematography is not done by quality of image or sound but by other means. This is a big lie that HT owners and HT traders perpetrate – hey feel that better screen, more resolution projector or more channels of surround speakers would give more connection between video show and live experiences. I feel the reality is that better performance of video equipment is great but it serves juts better performing video room, nothing else. Yes, there are very few video shows that might be benefited from “video room greatness” but the benefits are not in consummation of artistic messages but in pure recreation and amusement. BTW, I have nothing against amusement but I would like do not confuse it with mechanism of artistes enrichment, something that I find pure audio is.

By using audio creatively it is possible to mitigate artistic message. I can invite two hypothetically -identical people in my house, play to them the identical set of material but with different audio presentation and those hypothetically -identical people will have very different reaction to the performed music. I do speak the language of audio and I do know how to felicitate it. This is the whole point of interpretive force of audio and audio can convert a listening event of the very same performance from life-changing experience to a regular waste of time. In contrary I do not think that better Video event can do it. Of because the Video events can be superbly powerful but the power of the delivery in video room would not wary SO MUCH from lumens of your projector, reflection of your screen of finesse of video sound.

Rgs, Romy the Cat

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