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- cool video! Art and musical social commentary in its own right...

Many (most?) modern orchestral recordings are edited together from many source takes - 
done section by section. This maximizes the high cost of recording high priced expensive 
ensembles. I once heard an LSO session averaged out to about $50,000 an hour.

I co-produced a yet-to-be-released jazz trio/quartet session late last year that came in at 
about $600/hr. for tracking alone (killer studio, engineer, piano and sidemen). We did 
some save punches and inserts, but for the most part, it's musicians playing music - all 
the way through.

Anyway, all this discussion, while interesting, reminds me of one of my favorite 
oxymoronic statements: "you guys shouldn't be telling other people what to do or not to 
do." Ultimate tolerance means being tolerant of the intolerant, too.

- Barry

http://www.ancientsun.com/


--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...> 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? I 
> remember seeing Harry Chapin play 3 weeks before he died: still the best concert 
> I ever went to (by a mile). 1 person singing, 4 playing. Greatness.
> 
> Which brings me to this:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo
> 
> 
> Genius :)
> 
> Paul S.
>