How do you know that a piece of music (after the 70s) is not corrupted ?

[Flore]

Hi guys !

@dredger
@brandon
@ivanb
@Alma.Innovadora

Thank you for your post, reading you, I felt that what you said really spoke to me. It’s really that !

 

[Alma.Innovadora]

oh! Okay... I think this is what I meant by "just the melody" in my post. Okay, like a plant!

(L) Does a person's taste in music reflect their state of awareness, development, and being?

A: Yes, more or less, though there is a range of preferences at various "levels".

Q: (L) Okay, next question:

Does a person's taste in music reflect their personal aim in life?

A: It can be strongly affected if only subconsciously.

Q: (L) Okay:

What is more important in determining a song’s value: the lyrics or the sound/mood/feeling?

A: The sound opens the door for the lyrics to enter for good or ill.

Q: (L) Does that mean that a song that sounds really horrible and mechanical and like somebody just beating on a pot or clanging on the hood of their car or something, and if that's the kind of music the person likes, but it also has good lyrics, then that's okay?

A: Not exactly. The sound can open gates at - or of - different levels and parts of the internal makeup.

 

[katak]

On the other hand, I have listened to a lot of classical music, but I don't remember how symphonies sound like until I hear an excerpt! For example, right now, if you were to ask me how Beethoven's 9th Symphony sounds like, I would have no idea, alhough I listened to it many, many times!

I play classical music on a musical instrument. When I'm practicing a piece, the melody often plays in my head. Right now, it's Beethoven Probably it will be individual, how we perceive the music

 

[Tuulikki]

I work in a major supermarket in the UK and we have hideous piped music all day and night. It is the one thing I hate listening to as I enter the building. It is repetitive, boring and dissonant to me. I am quite glad when the public arrive in numbers as it tends to drown out the music and I don't hear it anymore. I much prefer classical, choral and folk music.

 

[Kate]

I have noticed how much current music affects behavior - at least mine. I am on a carnivore diet, I have celiac disease so my food choices are deeply rooted in me, I practically do not eat out at all and it is not a problem for me on a daily basis, I am not tempted and it is not a great sacrifice on my part to refuse. ...but... when, for example, there is a concert in the market square, when "good" music is playing very loudly, a different atmosphere is created in me and in one moment I am able to throw out my beliefs and choices and throw myself at city food regardless of the consequences , as if I were falling into some kind of trance - noticing this was very revealing how music can affect emotions and behavior and very sobering :(

 

[Truthseeker101]

So this is a fascinating topic for me since I have run recording studios most of my life. The 70's music was recorded to analog tape of course and everything stayed in analog throughout the process ... meaning it was tracked to analog tape, mixed to analog tape and then mixed again in a way when it was cut to the vinyl records. The idea that the frequencies are "held" on a vinyl record makes more sense physically to me since there are more limitations .... as in the record won't really hold the bass frequencies very well if it is improperly cut during the process ...and one has to be mindful as to how many songs can fit on one side of the album etc. But perhaps most importantly to the audiophile purists ... the analog waveforms stayed in the analog domain. Perhaps this contributed to what the C's might think of as a "Corrupted" version.

When CD's came out, there was the SPARS code on the back "AAD", "ADD" or "DDD" for those who cared. The "A" or "D" stood for "Analog" or "Digital" ... so the designation ADA meant that they were tracked Analog,Mixed digitally and mastered in the analog domain before finally being converted to the digital 1's and 0's found on the CD. So each of these processes allowed for a conversion and people decided for themselves what sounded the best ... each of these stages offers another potential point for corruption ... and in the early days of digital it really was a serious step down in quality with a lot of the frequencies that we were told didn't really matter (That we supposedly could not hear) ... completely wiped out of existence ... never mind that the more sensitively inclined could feel they were missing something.

Naturally I feel that the C"s are referring to a much wider scope of meaning than what I am describing in this post, but I do wonder if there is an inherent corruption that is unhealthy for one to listen to, when one listens to waveforms that have been converted from their original analog state to digital. Because that process would still have to be losing information in the conversion/transfer. Maybe there is something else going on that we are unaware of in this conversion process. Because now, most everything is recorded digitally. And even if one has chosen to "Warm it up" by using an analog stage here and there, it will end up in the digital domain.