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In the Thread: Playback journeys and Music
Post Subject: Audio form and contentPosted by Ronnie on: 4/30/2007
 Romy the Cat wrote: |
| Audio has sort of wrapper on a gift– can make it more attractive but has completely no affect to the substance of the gift. |
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I do often believe that I miss some content by hearing acoustic music through any random audio system, but perhaps it is only a trick in my (wrong) mind to protect against random meaningful experience.
I'm thinking of audio installations as a form for sound. Sound as a form for music. Music as a form for intent. Intent as a result in the mind, of accepting or rejecting love.
So, does the broken tweeter affect the substance of love? Does fixing the tweeter conjure up happiness?
Nah. But the effect can be the same, and this is how we confuse form and meaning, I suppose.
It's interesting how fiddling with audio can seem to change the intentions of the artist though...
I don't imagine it's possible to enhance the intentions beyond what the artists meant, but I wonder sometimes.
Well, actually I can imagine it, but that seems almost like breaking worldly rules to me. 
I listened to Black Sabbath "Vol. 4" in headphones yesterday. Have never heard it sounding so kind and lovely. Perhaps I can learn to release that magic from the headphones and hear the album like that every time.
If you lack that particular album, perhaps the same could be experienced by listening to Mussorgskys witches sabbat music. ;-)
Perhaps it too can sound ...sinister at a distance.
That "Night on a bald mountain" sounds very kind and happy (intent) to me, but perhaps using the diabolic theme (form) was done to build in some distance to his audience (clouding of intent) and perhaps they swallowed that at the time?..
I'm curious about how your separating audio and music relates to hearing live classical music amplified through a bad PA system.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site