tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post3722295116829648905..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Why louder classical music is better classical musicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-78734639482162172013-01-23T01:00:19.510+00:002013-01-23T01:00:19.510+00:00Love post and chart on Sound Sensitivity Relative ...Love post and chart on Sound Sensitivity Relative to Frequency (or should I say; Equal Loudness Curves rel-to Music). My standard had been that music should be 78-86dB (Avg Pk). That’s right around the 80 Phons mark.<br /><br />For an article dated in 2013, mp3 is not a new format but get the point being made (mp3 is dead in my book). There are better, more dynamic formats today as you mentioned. There just needs to be better, informative information out there (as the Internet is plagued with misguided info), along with education by example regarding playback gear and the use of sonically superior media formats.<br /><br />I recall a chat with a salesman in a high-end audio store as he showed an article of another salesman’s complaint of having ‘shown the customer the door’ after asking the best method of connecting his iPod. That, was a real failure to communicate the finer points of music.<br /><br />Here’s a review I posted on the subject of Loudness and Mylo Xyloto by Coldplay.<br />http://www.amazon.com/review/R1TQSIOA3EXG59/ref=cm_cr_rdp_permAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16964582533592778338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-48230639052127015242013-01-22T19:22:56.606+00:002013-01-22T19:22:56.606+00:00mrG, as I was at pains to point out I am suggestin...mrG, as I was at pains to point out I am suggesting "commissioning and programming of high energy music <b>alongside</b> the core repertoire" and "Nobody is suggesting throwing the dynamic baby out with the bath water".<br /><br />You are right, the purpose of classical music is not simply to put bums in seats. But if it is to live and grow it has to have a relevance, and that means exploring the vocabulary of contemporary music which includes compression and high energy. <br /><br />Are you really suggesting that works such as Louis Andriessen's <i>Worker's Union</i> are the equivalent of "big macs"? Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-70055629844096095542013-01-22T18:48:45.842+00:002013-01-22T18:48:45.842+00:00Isn't that a little like saying if a haute cui...Isn't that a little like saying if a haute cuisine restaurant wants more customers, it should start serving big macs?<br /><br />I don't doubt your thesis, but I do doubt the intention: is the purpose of classical music simply to put bums in seats? I don't want to believe that; art music should be about advancing the art, and in painting that means attention to the skill and craft as much as to the message and even more so the advancing of the ability of the audience to see. It is, by nature, educational because it is to elevate the receiver. Classical music (whatever that label may mean in 2013) needs to reclaim its role as the vanguard of the sonic arts, as the exploration into the depths of our ability to hear and connect to each other. Pop music, on the other hand, is a classical burlesque, it is about the illusion that anyone can be great if they just let it all hang out. One hopes there is a better destiny for humanity than that.teledynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15387640373550962501noreply@blogger.com