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Subject: Re: [motm] Power of editing

From: "mcb, inc." <mcbinc@...>
Date: 2007-04-28

On Fri, 27 Apr 2007, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> Reading Ken's missive and thinking about how Tomita/Wendy never really "played"
> any of their compositions all the way through: it was massive
> editing/splicing/layering. Then was talking to a fellow MOTM'er that probably
> 95% of the records made today, the band/singer never played/sang the who song
> all the way from start to finish. It's massive ProTools "snippets",
> pitch-corrected/EQ'd/etc. Does anyone every make a "real song" anymore?

It can sometimes be surprising where this turns out to be
the case. The Tallis Scholars have done so for a decade+ on their
recordings. And they're fully capable of a live performance...

m

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Monty Brandenberg