Klarinet Archive - Posting 000156.txt from 2005/03

From: Tom Flavel <tom@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] German sound
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:21:47 -0500

On 03/03/2005 22:07:55, Adam Michlin wrote:
>
> Add to that the ubiquitousness of high quality recordings and it seems
> silly to try characterize a sound in terms of region in today's world.

Agreed. So what *do* we characterize it by?

My thought is that you're saying geographic groups effectivley no longer
exist (in, I assume, developed countries)

What exists instead? People still have a sense of unity. I think that
the groups still exist - even though they're not geographically
correlating to anything in particular, though that's where they may have
originated. Hippie culture, or Punk, or the graffiti or hiphop cultures
started somewhere. Yet now, there are people in rather diverse
locations, who, if you put them all in a room, would fit naturally next
to each other.

Intererstingly, communications (herein I think of email, newsgroups and
online chat programs) bring together these groups. The mental image I
have is of a tabletop and three bags of brightly coloured marbles. Pour
the bags out, and at first they remain pretty clustered. Give the
marbles trains, and airports (it's a big table), and eventually they're
spread very evenly. This does not mean the groups are no longer present!

I suspect the same thing is happening: we have these groups, cultures,
movements, lifestyles, genres - whatever they are - which happen to be
mixed so evenly that we don't see them. They *are* there, but we're
looking for them by taking hold of a grip which no longer exists: we
need to find another way to grasp their defining points.

Was geography really the origional defining point anyway? Or just that
communication is easier in physically close locations? I say this
because surely not everybody in that location would agree on the same
ideas!

Regards,

--
Tom

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