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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2004-02-02 16:54
I hope everyone read the New York Times article on lip-synching yesterday. If not, here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/arts/music/01NELS.html (free registration required).
We've gotten to the point that audiences prefer a perfect performance to a live one. There are at least some famous pop singers who can't sing even close to in tune, and their records and "live" performances have each note electronically tweaked to be in tune.
Live music is being devoured from both ends.
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Author: msloss
Date: 2004-02-02 17:25
I would use the word "music" sparingly if at all to describe most of what is synced. "Pasteurized processed cheese product" might be more appropriate.
What critic-wannabes and "purists" fail to grasp is that most pop music these days is a creation of the recording studio. It is run on 96-track SSL boards, Pro Tools, synthesizers and samplers, pitch correctors, compressors, etc., and constructed over months if not years. Each tune is built up from tiny little bits into fairly amazing (from a technical perspective only) creations that could not have existed in the real world - Musique Concrete gone awry. That stuff simply can't be performed. Plus, nobody really sounds like that when they sing, particularly when jumping around a stage like her pants are on fire. Soooooooo, it ain't live in any sense except that everyone has a pulse (well, except maybe Keith Richards). Nothing has been lost.
Save the alarm bells for music that is actually meant to be performed (Broadway musicals, for instance). I think discerning audiences attending a Met production, jazz club, etc. grasp the difference between recorded perfection and real live performance.
OBTW, "each" note doesn't have to be pitch-corrected any more. Antares makes a nice little $400 box that does it on the fly. Perfect gift for that saxophonist in your life.
Cheers, M.
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2004-02-02 17:57
There are exceptions to this trend, of course. I attended another delightful performance of chamber music last night - Beethoven's Serenade in D major for flute, violin & viola - Mozart's Quartet in F major for oboe, violin, viola & cello - Hummel's Quartet in Eb Major for clarinet, violin, viola & cello. The attendance at each of these chamber concerts is growing, last night it was over 400. Of course it doesn't hurt that the music director always has something humourous to say in his introductions, and the other folks are encouraged to let their hair down in their intros as well, but the music is fabulous. Then with the musicians meeting the audience in the lobby afterwards to enjoy a few treats and coffee only adds to the evening.
The small hall allows for the use of no microphones, so you hear the purity of the instruments. There's no ear-blasting loudness of amplification nor the distortion of voice or instruments that inevitably occurs with mics. The intimacy of being relatively close to very expensive instruments and to the professional players adds to the experience. It's something that parents should take their children to hear on a regular basis. The kids won't appreciate it until they're older, but isn't that the way with most things?
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Author: ClariSax217
Date: 2004-02-03 01:56
Where I live, there's a little group called the Southwest Florida Jazz Society... Headed up by Jerry Winner and some other notable locals. Mr. Winner wears a pin that proudly reads: "I (Heart) Live Music." The SWFJS gives out scholarships, and promotes youth, as well as other musicians of any age, to come out and play or listen to true live music. As a young hopeful musician, this gives my friends and I much hope, and motivation to bring back quality live music. It's definitely a nice thing to do on a Friday night, as compared to what my fellow teenage friends are out doing.
*~*Malaya*~*
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