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Re: [ARSCLIST] RCA Living Stereo
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Steven Smolian wrote:
> I take issue with the deification of these recordings. To me they are
> extremely artifical, with no attempt to recreate the listener's concert hall
> experience. The sound stage is set up from the conductor's perspecive.
> There seems no blending of the forward-directed sound mixed with the
> slightly later one thrust out by the proscenium.
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> This music was written to be heard by an audience seated at a distance from
> the performers, not from the conductor's lap.
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> That may be the aesthetic you wish. I hate it.
Indeed for me, the approach to recording is very much subject to the
aesthetic of the recording engineer...as for my favorite...I'll take anything
engineered by John Eargle over any Living Stereo or Mercury...but then I
certainly am not going to give away all of my Victor or Mercury discs.
For me, just about every recording made since 1921 or so is "electronic
music."
Karl