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In the Thread: How to make a music person to “get” Audio?

Post Subject: How to make a music person to “get” Audio?Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/25/2012

It is know that many music people do not get audio. The subject was zillion times discussed among all imaginary people and different people offer different explanation of the phenomena. I do not find that any “phenomena” exists in all but you do not want to hear me as I also do consider that many even audio people do not “get” audio. I do have my vision why many music people do not “get” audio but this is not the reason why I started this thread. What interests me is to find a mechanism that would explain to a music person my vision of what audio does and how audio might be used.

For a few months I deal with a lady who is trained classical musician and her reliance on audio is negligible. Over the whole our relationship I did not make a single effort to explain/demonstrate to her what audio is and how audio might be used. We listen my playback but from what I observe she takes absolutely no advantage of my playback capacity. Last night we were listening Mahler 2 by MTT and BSO from last year and the complexity of my playback imaging I think did “get” her. During scherzo BSO had some remarkable interworking across sections and it grabbed her. She did played M2 but sitting at her stand, or sitting at most of sits of concert halls out there, no one get that “purely conductor perspective” - the listening perspective that live FM broadcast can offer. So, I think I did witnessed in here a feeling that audio can supplement “something” in realm of listening experiences and I was hugely gratified witnessed it.

Well, the folks who do audio “fulltime” do understand that it was an illustration of minor benefit of a properly-rendered playback imaging and that there are SO MUCH MORE to it. So, I very much would like this girl to be able to speak on the language of audio sensations and audio expectation. I thought about it a lot as our relationship started but I did not want to inflict on her my vision of audio and I would like her to develop her own realization what audio might be. Still, the event of the last nigh did advise me that with proper exhibition the audio-culturing might be ….expiated.

So, my question to the folks who dealt with classical musicians and who were successful to introduce them to audio: what techniques did you use to do so?

Rgs,
Romy The Cat

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