RE: toys for non-musicians (was: online real time looping sequencer game)

[phillip wilson <phillwilson@hotmail.com>]

Haha...I re read my post and on the whole decided I sounded a bit serious, I was only mess-ranting too mate :) 
 
just seems to be somethin I have had to endure through my life as a photography student followed by camera shop worker..onto full time photographer and into my currant main job as technical support officer for a web agency.
 
People swear by and cling onto certain formats because of how it mad them feel the first time they encountered it and so forth but by the very nature of my lifestyle I need to addapt and probably get a but unduly tetchy when others dont lol.
 
funny enough now we have expanded this conversation, I am on your side for ear buds I love the THEORY of them but actually find that over the ear phones are much nicer as the seem to let the sounds "breathe".
 
 
as for Ipod parties...go for it..no matter what your chosen format, get your muso mates round with their collections and play pass the parcel with tunes, its fun and you come away with a huge list of "wants"
 
Phill
 

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From: mark@markfrancombe.com
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:05:23 +0200
Subject: Re: toys for non-musicians (was: online real time looping sequencer game)
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com

Yikes!! Did i come across as a format junkie.. BY NO MEANS!! I am facinated by your idea of a iPod party.. does that happen??? Great!! Didnt know that....

Sorry, but Film IS better than digital, and Tape IS better than digital... but I agree.. close enough and a hell of a lot more convenient...
no I was just thinking about the way people hear...

I was fascinated by IN EAR phones for a while, (then in ear MICRO-phones, but thats another thread... ) hoping that the music would "get in my head".. but all i found was that the music cut out the 'verbs of the listening environment and gave me headaches... after years of pumping horrifically loud sounds thru my eardrums from headphones, ...no.. my hearing is fine... still hearing 16k no probs.. no.. i just cant listen on headphones... the world closes in and I feel claustrophobic and cut off, I start to sweat and in the end tear them buds out like a crazy man... cant do it...

OH... and one more thing... if I was allowed to post pics here i would post a photo of my bus to work in the morning... was a dismal site. We are but drones staring forward and avoiding the gazes... cripes...

m 

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:54 PM, phillip wilson <phillwilson@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > I am less
> > concerned about how the music was created but more concerned
> > that people are listening to music in this way (plugged-in
> > on white cables - shut off from the world) as far as Im
> > concerned iPod users are listening wrong, and that THIS is
> > bad for humanity...
> >
> >
> >
> > Serious Question: Do teenagers nowadays, sit in their
> > bedrooms with friends playing records...?
> > http://tinyurl.com/ledz8r

 

OOooohhh...ouch!!!
 
as a token "Young Person" myself,I see this very differantly!!
 
My generation has grown up facing constant fluidly changing points of referance when it comes to "media"..this is the world we know and accept , formats change specs move on etc etc.
 
I personally have also grown up always seeming to be flying in the face of an older generation of people who have become preoccupied and precious over these "media" ...Film, Records, Paper, OS's ....they all have their uses, they all have unique properties...BUT THEY ARE ALL JUST MEDIA.
 
film is no more organic then CCD chips...its chemicals and man made materials just with differing properties, Records have Grooves while CDs have pits read by lazer and BOTH work.
 
at the end of the day, the way I have grown up has allowed me to evaluate my individual needs (not just primary like music= need for best sound quality, but on a free flowing scale that takes in portability, battery life, size etc) in a way which selects any one of a multitude of forms rather then bemoaning the loss of another format that has seen its use decline (which in itself may be just a blip, think of transistor amps...now we are all back to valves!!!)
 
anyhoo, I rant and rave on but the ultimate point is...I feel I embrace a multitude of formats, but I do so by applying WHO I AM to each one of them, I am indeed a social creature so in the instance of "I-pods" I know of many people such as myself who play "I-pod roulette" which is when each of you siit ,usually with mini speakers connected to your device and take it in turns to go around the circle and play a song each..normally themes emerge as one song reminds someone of another.
 
to me this is a social activity ideally suited to the medium of choice..i could do it with my records cds or minidisks, but the properties of having lots of audio in one tiny easy ot navigate box lets this game move quickly and smoothly.
 
just my god knows how many cents
 
Phill 

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