I don't believe that by listening to recorded music, I can no longer appreciate
the live stuff. In fact, I think it's made me want to see more live
performances.
You'd have a rough time convincing me that I should toss out my radio, CDs, and
albums (wow, they'll be collectors items soon, eh?). The convenience and
accessibility of recorded music can't be denied. We can enjoy recorded music
any time/any place. (I'm sure I couldn't get Paul Simon and Ladysmith Black
Mombasa to play in my office while I work, but I can pop the CD into my
computer, and voila.)
And, I love harp music, but it's not the only stuff out there. I'd hate to
have to give up any music that I couldn't hear live. And as for allowing
myself one hour of a harp CD for every 10 hours of live harp practice, yikes,
that sounds too much like punishment to me. Music is supposed to be fun!
Great thread!
-Amy
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From: laurhot @ ix.netcom.com (Lauren Rene Hotchkiss) @ UGATE
Date: Tuesday October 22, 1996 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: Tune tinkering/Performance Practices
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Ozark Pam wrote:
>
>I feel documented music(recorded or scored) is a double edged sword,
and >one of its disadvantages is that listeners lose the ability to
>appreciate live music. Performance is more than the polished
execution>of music as we expect to hear it, it is richer than recorded
music in >the same way that theater is richer than film.
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I wouldn't say that live music is necessarily richer than recorded
music or that theatre is richer than film. They are just different.
Recording a live performance or a studio mix of an audio or video
artform is simply capturing a snapshot in time. If it is well done it
is well done. If not, it's not. But the same is true of live
performances. Not all of them are gems. The one quality that a live
performance has that a recorded one does not is the ability to grow and
develop. Once something is locked on tape, that's it. On the other
hand, it is also true that the video or audio recording mediums allow
you to do some things that you could never pull off live and can indeed
be quite rich.
Lauren