Comments | eveningair: Conversation on the loss of physical media

eveningair

Conversation on the loss of physical media

Dec 03, 2008 20:24

This is perhaps an endearing oratory on why I've yet to own a portable mp3 player. There have been moments where such a thing would have propheced it's uses to be self-evident. But rewind (coda to follow ( Read more... )

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humbug! muloc December 5 2008, 05:15:53 UTC

However you listen to music, be it on an ephemeral jukebox or a 50 year old player with a really fine needle, it never is more or less than music. My ipod has been with me for four years. Many things have happened that I associate with my soulless kitchen appliance styled box, the keeper of muses.

Why can't the iPod have similar associations of use, and 'creation!'? They do scratch easily!

So this is where your conservatism is channeled!

Distanced. eveningair December 12 2008, 13:46:57 UTC

More or less than music- I'd expand this. It's a performance. Abstracted. Roots in folk, in community ritual coming together. Now recorded music in itself is an inauthenticity- so you could argue that no matter how it's packaged, digitally, LP, tape, DAT- they're all as fractured from the truth as each other.

Yeah, in this regard, I think I am fairly luddite. Multitracking on PC/Mac's is fairly revelatory, but again, theres something beautiful about 8 track machines.