I'm an old man and I don't trust any music I can't touch or see.
midi? Surely you mean them rad phat bitchin awesome iPod .mp3s, right? Or
have midis crawled out of their limited but clever music-box crudeness and
become something technically sophisticated -- technically worthy of GG's
'55 Goldbergs? If so, please help an old man stay In The Cool Loop, and
supply details, urls on youtube and Napster.
My life superglued to my spot on the Calendar straddles the revolution
from
analog to digital format music. (My turntable is still hooked up to my
living room stereo, but is thick with dust, and none of my beloved vinyl
has made the trip up from the basement in more than a decade.) Without
subscribing to Audiophile, I've nonetheless tried to keep up with Tek
Gossip, and the persistent buzz is that mp3s are inherently of lower
fidelity than CD format music.
This isn't a problem for most Youth Music -- my audio engineer pals back
in
the 70s were fond of saying: "Close enough for Rock n Roll!" Children's
musical tastes are often indistinguishable from the desire to suffer
permanent hearing loss, and in fact spokesmen for Tinnitus Prevention
include Pete Townshend of The Who and Lars Ulrich of Metallica. (cf.
http://www.hearnet.com/index.shtml )
But mp3s for classical music? Is this whippersnapper format truly up to
the
bandwidth and dynamic range challenges?
iPods win the prize for portability, transportability, convenience and
storage density, but the buzz I hear is that mp3s will always be doomed to
provide a crappier sound than CDs -- and thus can never rise to the Gould
Standard of audio excellence.
Yes? No? Can a midi or an mp3 possibly do justice to Gould's piano
recordings?
Please make me hip, so I can start to d/l Gould from my wi-fi laptop in
the
Nursing Home. (Over the Muzak, me and my peers are listening to Jimi
Hendrix' "Crosstown Traffic" right now, and this weekend Grace Slick is
bringing her Jefferson Airplane retro show to the Rec Hall!)
Toothless Bob, fresh from his ghastly 60th birthday party
News, Weather, Mozart, Sports, Extragalactic Travel, sausages, opera,
PIRATES!!! & Really Big Integers friom Planet Vleeptron:
http://VleeptronZ.blogspot.com
Remarkable Older Stuph: http://vleeptron.blogspot.com
[Original Message]
From: Stefania Zampini <stefyz71@gmail.com>
To: <f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
Date: 3/7/2007 5:40:08 AM
Subject: Re: [F_minor] Zenph 55 G'bergs released!
Great news thanks!
I've read the Zenph webpages but wasn't able to find any info if the
hi-res
midifiles will be marketized as well...anyone knows anything about it?
Thanks,
Stefy
----- Original Message -----
From: "MJ Watts" <mj.accounts@gmail.com>
To: <f_minor@email.rutgers.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 5:43 AM
Subject: [F_minor] Zenph 55 G'bergs released!
I can't wait to hear what everyone has to say about this recording.
What an interesting project!
-Mary Jo,
listowner, f_minor
SONY BMG MASTERWORKS AND ZENPH(r) STUDIOS RELEASE GLENN GOULD'S BACH
GOLDBERG VARIATIONS (1955)
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