The Mellotron Group

I listen with the inside of my brain.
 
 
In a message dated 7/27/2011 9:59:46 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
fdoddy@aol.com writes:

 
 
 
More information in a symphony than a song? Depends on what kind of  
information you're listening to/focusing on, and what side of the brain you  
listen with.

fritz




 
 
 







...and of the concert hall  acoustics, of course.  The differences between 
one performance and the  other tend to be pretty subtle though, maybe 
because there is a lot more  'information' in a symphony than in a song.










-----Original  Message-----
From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
To:  newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Jul  27, 2011 4:39 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] So - The train wreck  finally wrecked


 
 
 
On 26/07/2011 23:34, tronbros wrote: 

 
The main difference in all this is that within rock and pop you have a  
definitive recording, be it Strawberry Fields or Nights.  Nobody really  wants 
to hear a copy, there is no score, it was captured once in a  particular 
way.  




I dunno.  It  depends on the band and their modus operandi.  Some of the 
more  adventurous might record the song in the studio but then radically 
rework it  live, or in a radio session, or whatever.  Depressingly, rather a lot  
tried to relive their studio effort by playing a thinner version live but 
just  beefing it up with a couple of thousand watts behind them.  That's 
where  live albums tend to fall over big time. 



 
 
Classical music is realised through the interpretation of scores,  modified 
endlessly by the vision of conductors and the sonority of  individual 
orchestras.   






...and of the concert hall  acoustics, of course.  The differences between 
one performance and the  other tend to be pretty subtle though, maybe 
because there is a lot more  'information' in a symphony than in a song.



 
 
Therefore the audience for pop will diminish as you move away from the  
time of it's original creation.  Okay, the Beatles defy this theory a  little.  






They defy it a  lot.  What will help is the sheer amount of the product 
about,  physically.  Michael Jackson will last without a doubt because there is 
 just so much of his music everywhere.  I suspect it will have a lot less  
to do with actual quality and have more to do with quantity.