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In Reply to: OK, now the opposite. Which music irritates you most so much you avoid it like the plague. posted by John C. - Aussie on November 8, 2011 at 15:06:06:
For Classical music!!!???1. CROSSOVER!!!!!!! Classical types doing pop-standards/classics/Broadway, mostly you think WHY? / WTFITFor!?
Eg. Compare Linda Ronstadt, or better still Bernadette Peters, or, or, or .... to Kiri te Kanawa. See, or hear!?! ;-)
Exceptions? Bryn Terfel, most of such recordings by him do not lead me to turn the radio off. But ALL the exceptions 'test the rule.' *
* [JBTWay the latter bit is the original wording of 'prove the rule' and it makes more sense, to me at least. ?? ask? .....
But not if you're an objectivist.
On second thought, g'warn ask I'd just LOVE that!]
2. Post-modernist productions or re-writes of operas, on TV or DVD or in the theatre. Kind of like re-dubbing Australian movies for US audiences. Mostly unnecessary, diminishing, arrogant and witlessly stupid as with almost all people's shallow understanding/lack of critique of, post-modernism.'Harmony is dead!' No it isn't. 'Nothing matters / everything is relative.' / 'Any culture is as valid (valuable) as any other.' Really?! ......
3. Multi-tracking so as to use the same performer for pieces for two trumpets, or two voices or what ever. Soon we'll have one of WAM's pc for 2 hands for CFSake!!!!!
Surely the point of these pieces is to see what two real people do with the piece at the same time in the same space. An 'interesting rathole' as us IT and Proj.M'ger types call them.
Soo please Wynton, just don't bother, eh maaate!?
You know, I find his classical/baroque efforts kind of miss the target, and why use that bitch KB either, eh?!
His Jazz? Ahemmmmm. He IS a technically superb trumpeter, isn't he?
5. Last But Not Least (LBNL) - Overmiked / overproduced acoustic music of ANY kind, especially when the seams are more obvious than the whole which, more often than not, they just will be!
It's an example of the maths of 'permutations and combinations,' except we don't add lots and lots of extra arcs/contracts/pipes with each new node/participant/pump but lots and lots more edge-cancellations (phase) with each single extra microphone.
That is, less, and less, and less fidelity. Each extra mike being worse for the whole than the last extra one was. Eg? We've got two in a crossed pair and that's 1 very tiny edge cancellation but IT does give us 3D aka a solid whole aka 'stereo' from the Greek. We add another spot-mike and that gives us 3 edge-cancellations, add a fourth mike and we know have 6 edge cancellations, add a 5th and we have another 4 = 10?
I knew you'd understand ;-)!Even *'re-timing the spot mikes to a main central pair' - which digital makes possible - can't eliminate this problem. Nor can *re-timing change the fact that close-miking alters timbre (a perception), quite a lot. So you have two timbres for lots of the instruments.
*Denon were the first to do this almost 2 decades before DGG's 4D.
I'll get out of yer way now, shall I!?
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 11/10/11
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