Oh I wish I had never said that...

[Happy Harry]

Hi Martin (et al)

You could not be more CORRECT !

In music history class... I was crippled by lack of
exposure to...er...classical music. We covered the
20th century in a single class. And when the test came
and you had to identify lets say... Morton Subotnik from
Milton Babbit... I was the only one able to do so. I could
tell the timbre differences of the instrument themselves.
Ahh... thats the RCA so it must be the Babbit example...

The other students just didn't CARE also. Synths were not
"music" as for as they were concerned. They asked to have
the test thrown out. I got 100%, they got 70% and lower.

I argued that I had suffered when they got 100% and I got the
70%... that my grade would be harmed because the 100% would not
be curved in to MY scores... and that they were a bunch of FVCKING
CRYBABIES because if I could get 100% (I was a "C" student) then the
"A" students should have had NO TROUBLE doing so. I was living proof
that with some STUDY and EFFORT that it was indeed possible to pass,
and even ace the test.

Professor agreed !

It was more prejudice and lack of effort that doomed them... but
also as a synth-builder / player... I could HEAR the differences
and they could not !

HA HA HA !  I hope they are all still "starving musicians" to this day!

H^) harry

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>:::*we* are the weirdos, collecting old moogs and building our own analogue
>:::stuff, and in that sense, we are closer in spirit to audiophiles using
>:::high-end separates to play their vinyl collections than we are to the 
>likes
>:::of norman cook or the chemical brothers who happen to have appropriated 
>some
>:::of our favourite sounds for their dreadful output.
>
>Yes. Because we build audio circuits starting maybe with the age of 14,
>we are able to tell the difference between an analog filter and it's
>digital clone. Because we are used to listen to timbre.
>And we know how to turn knobs to make the difference striking.
>
>This was my greatest surprise in this respect:
>Traditional trained musicians are very often not able to hear
>what I can hear. They are very good in analysinfg chords and
>lines e.g. from a record, but sound or timbre is something they
>are not so good at.
>
>But I think the differences we are talking about  are generally
>more obvious than CD players and audiophile CD playes (with
>chilled CDs from the fridge, if you know what I mean).


>
>m.c.
>
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