Jessica Duchen's Classical Music & Ballet Blog. Novelist/journalist JD writes for The Independent, London
Monday, August 17, 2009
Brave New Worlds?
Responding to Alex Ross in The New Yorker on digital remastering and the overavailability of music. Plus a few adventures closer to home with a 78s-playing gramophone...http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/2022
Your title made me think of Aldous Huxley, who, in "Point Counter Point" wrote a wonderful paragraph about a late Beethoven quartet and the sounds produced by the gramophone with 78rpm records. " ..a faint scratching and roaring that mimicked the noise of Beethoven's own deafness..." On the other hand there is the Flanders and Swann "Song of Reproduction" In '55 I had a 12" record with the Flying Dutchman Overture played really fast so that it could be contained on one disc, nevertheless the pleasure I had in my teens with this imperfect technology has never been surpassed by the higher fi I subsequently owned.
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Your title made me think of Aldous Huxley, who, in "Point Counter Point" wrote a wonderful paragraph about a late Beethoven quartet and the sounds produced by the gramophone with 78rpm records. " ..a faint scratching and roaring that mimicked the noise of Beethoven's own deafness..."
On the other hand there is the Flanders and Swann "Song of Reproduction"
In '55 I had a 12" record with the Flying Dutchman Overture played really fast so that it could be contained on one disc, nevertheless the pleasure I had in my teens with this imperfect technology has never been surpassed by the higher fi I subsequently owned.
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