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In the Thread: The “Implied Sound” in Audio.
Post Subject: Marketing "Taste"Posted by Paul S on: 7/27/2008
Perhaps there are several working definitions of the term "taste" floating around here? I think of "taste" as it applies in this thread as pertaining to or presupposing a certain level of cultivation that is both broad and dep (or, not); "evolved", if you will (or, not).
The experiments with overtones are facinating stuff, all right, but I agree with Antonio that at a certain level of personal refinement it becomes a matter of either/or, more of a Rorschach test than something written into one's genetic code.
Lots of ink has been spilled, and many interesting and (situationally) valid points raised by very bright and well-spoken Deconstructionists (most of whom were educated via Classical pedagogy, BTW...) who try to suggest that all viewpoints are "valid" or "equal", etc., ad nauseum. But if one believes that, why browse here?
I think the crux of the idea of "taste" here necessarily includes both the ideas of discernment of differences and a reading of same that is both hierarchical and dialectical as part of the process.
To so much as speak of or merely call to mind "The Shadow Effect" is already way beyond the ethos/vortex of mere consumption, and IMO it is also beyond the sort of metering/meting-out of participation awards that simply encourages not just cultural melding but also richly serves corporate interests in conditioning the "Market" to whatever the Hell might happen to be offered next.
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