The Mellotron Group

More information in a symphony than a song? Depends on what kind of information you're listening to/focusing on, and what side of the brain you listen with.

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    ...and of the concert hall acoustics, of course.  The differences    between one performance and the other tend to be pretty subtle    though, maybe because there is a lot more 'information' in a    symphony than in a song.

 

 


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
To: newmellotrongroup <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wed, Jul 27, 2011 4:39 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] So - The train wreck finally wrecked


  
    
                  
        On 26/07/2011 23:34, tronbros wrote:    
                       
            
The main difference in all this is that within rock and              pop you have a definitive recording, be it Strawberry              Fields or Nights.  Nobody really wants to hear a copy,              there is no score, it was captured once in a particular              way.  
            
          
                  
    
    I dunno.  It depends on the band and their modus operandi.     Some of the more adventurous might record the song in the studio but    then radically rework it live, or in a radio session, or whatever.     Depressingly, rather a lot tried to relive their studio effort by    playing a thinner version live but just beefing it up with a couple    of thousand watts behind them.  That's where live albums tend to    fall over big time. 
    
    
      
        
          
            
Classical music is realised through the interpretation              of scores, modified endlessly by the vision of conductors              and the sonority of individual orchestras.  
            
          
        
      
    
    
    ...and of the concert hall acoustics, of course.  The differences    between one performance and the other tend to be pretty subtle    though, maybe because there is a lot more 'information' in a    symphony than in a song.
    
    
      
        
          
            
Therefore the audience for pop will diminish as you              move away from the time of it's original creation.  Okay,              the Beatles defy this theory a little.  
            
          
        
      
    
    
    They defy it a lot.  What will help is the sheer amount of the    product about, physically.  Michael Jackson will last without a    doubt because there is just so much of his music everywhere.  I    suspect it will have a lot less to do with actual quality and have    more to do with quantity.