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salut from the projection booth at the claudia cassidy theatre. film screening tonight: kinji fukasaku's "if you were young: rage"

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Interesting that the fellow who wrote the article ignored what I said specifically was my biggest objection to digital recording, the inevitability of the music's disappearance.

I have gone on about this (droned on) at length before and won't again, but I think everything else about digital recording (everything other than its lack of permanence) is a solvable problem. But, like an otherwise cute girl with a parasitic twin head, specifically one of which curses and spits tobacco juice at you every time it sees you, that one problem is enough to negate any other attractions.

I leave you, cantankerously from the hide-bound past.

Ahhhhhh thanks Steve. Your metaphors are well worth the price of admission.

Hugs and kisses,

Renaldo

i kind of think the "lack of permanence" in digital recording counteracts the fact that it's so cheap and easy for alot of people to do. that is, because of the accessability that digital recording has presented to people, a lot more banal filth is being recorded these days than ever (ahem, myspace.com), and i think that the truly great stuff that's been digitally recorded will be preserved depite the medium's problem with 'forward compatibility' because enough people will recognize it and care enough to convert it. though i do see how someone who records music for a living might have an objective feeling of responsability about the whole thing, and that's part of the reason that i could never do that job. so, i think if there's going to be a cheap and easy means of recording out there, it should have some preservation issues, and i also understand why any professional studio would rather not use it.

(Albini is) known for arranging mikes in a way that gives drums that elusive, compressed sound and brightens the tone of the guitars.

Once again, Steve's the king.

that's article is dumb steve couldn not rite his way out of a cardbored box cause this is dumb article. steve told me death cab cuties like to lick buttballs too. he told me its so it's trues.

steve wrote:I have gone on about this (droned on) at length before and won't again, but I think everything else about digital recording (everything other than its lack of permanence) is a solvable problem. But, like an otherwise cute girl with a parasitic twin head, specifically one of which curses and spits tobacco juice at you every time it sees you, that one problem is enough to negate any other attractions.
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i don't see why you can just write down all the 1s and 0s on paper and keep it in a filing cabinet for a permanent record....

shagboy wrote:i don't see why you can just write down all the 1s and 0s on paper and keep it in a filing cabinet for a permanent record....

You can do this. But you need a decoder to get musics out of the zero's and one's. There is no logical connection between the raw data and what it codifies. So if the decoder is lost, and you lose the algorithm, it becomes impossible to retrieve the codified information.

It is very feasible that decoding algorhitms get lost, somewhere, over the years, especially in capitalist strategies, where corporations have a great interest in selling new devices and thus in outdating old ones.

Also, Alexandria burned.

Hey, you probably already knew this.

But there it is.

warmowski wrote:salut from the projection booth at the claudia cassidy theatre. film screening tonight: kinji fukasaku's "if you were young: rage"

This is a great movie.

steve wrote:...but I think everything else about digital recording (everything other than its lack of permanence) is a solvable problem.

what about just dumping it to analog for storage after doing all the tracking, mixing, etc. in digital?