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[jbv]

>
> He, he, discussions about warm and cold can get quite furious - no wonder
> with such an inherently subjective matter as how a piece of art is perceived
> and described by the listener. (;->)

> But seriously: _Of_course_ analogue sounds can be cold - it would be sad
> if that range of emotions would not be possible to evoke with an analogue
> synthesizer. For example, Tangerine Dream's "Phaedra" and "Rubicon" are often
> praised for their "glacial beauty", and Klaus Schulze's "Crystal Lake"
> also evokes a feeling of (wonderful) coldness in me. (No wonder - it's
> subtitled "Eine elektronische Winterlandschaft" - an electronic Winter
> landscape.)
>

you guys will probably find my remark silly (as usual ;-), but my
own subjective perception of a piece of music (as warm or cold or...)
is also influenced by the packaging, the color of the record sleeve, etc.

In the vinyl days, discovering a new album was a kind of ceremony,
especially with gatefold (or tri-fold or quadri-fold) covers. IMHO the
whole packaging / artwork had a large influence on the way music was
perceived... For example, the color & design of TD's "Phaedra" artwork
somehow "forced" the listener to perceive it as "cold"...

Today, almost every CD sounds cold (or even dull) to me, probably
because artwork has been reduced to the size of a stamp... And also
probably because of the slick / glassy aspect of the CD itself...

JB