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Sing never again
Apr. 26th, 2007 09:32 amFor me music is a very emotional thing; in now-space and in memory-space; moods uplifted or twisted from sound. So it's a very pleasant trip every now and then to wander back through music you've not listened to for a while to remember and relive how that music makes you feel, emotional memories if you will.
That's one of the problems with mp3s, I believe, although an excellent medium for storage and transit of music in general (up to a point in quality, insert disclaimer here, reverse your charges where neccessary) it doesn't have that tangeable quality of a CD/LP/Tape/Bongo, the music itself becomes even more ethereal and insubstantial. If you have a CD then you have a visual memory, a picture from the CD cover to link in memory to the sound itself. This is why picture disks were so fantastic - it made the music and audiovisual thing and why music videos should be more than just the band on stage, they should be art darling, they should help put across the ideas, concepts and visual senses that the music is trying to make you feel. Music is emotion. This is also why films like Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi are something everyone should see.
But the great thing about mp3s is that I have my entire music collection with me here at work on a box small enough to fit in my backpack. All hail random play and mp3's!
That's one of the problems with mp3s, I believe, although an excellent medium for storage and transit of music in general (up to a point in quality, insert disclaimer here, reverse your charges where neccessary) it doesn't have that tangeable quality of a CD/LP/Tape/Bongo, the music itself becomes even more ethereal and insubstantial. If you have a CD then you have a visual memory, a picture from the CD cover to link in memory to the sound itself. This is why picture disks were so fantastic - it made the music and audiovisual thing and why music videos should be more than just the band on stage, they should be art darling, they should help put across the ideas, concepts and visual senses that the music is trying to make you feel. Music is emotion. This is also why films like Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi are something everyone should see.
But the great thing about mp3s is that I have my entire music collection with me here at work on a box small enough to fit in my backpack. All hail random play and mp3's!
