Oh I totally agree. Not sure if you've ever read David Byrne's book "How Music Works" but he has this incredible passage at the beginning about how the environment a song is heard in is so crucial and all songs don't have to work in all environments, yet we expect them to.
Oh I totally agree. Not sure if you've ever read David Byrne's book "How Music Works" but he has this incredible passage at the beginning about how the environment a song is heard in is so crucial and all songs don't have to work in all environments, yet we expect them to.
Great piece, Chris. On this specific question of the live and the recorded, yes they may be separate things but the distinction has increasingly become blurred over the years. As Philip Auslander's book Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, argues, the use of technology in live performance has made it hard to tell what is 'live' in the music itself (https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/rL5CzwEACAAJ?hl=en). Perhaps 'liveness' is more a quality of a group of people coming together in a place at a particular time and what unfolds there rather than some inherent aspect of what is coming out of the speakers.
Oh I totally agree. Not sure if you've ever read David Byrne's book "How Music Works" but he has this incredible passage at the beginning about how the environment a song is heard in is so crucial and all songs don't have to work in all environments, yet we expect them to.
Great piece, Chris. On this specific question of the live and the recorded, yes they may be separate things but the distinction has increasingly become blurred over the years. As Philip Auslander's book Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, argues, the use of technology in live performance has made it hard to tell what is 'live' in the music itself (https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/rL5CzwEACAAJ?hl=en). Perhaps 'liveness' is more a quality of a group of people coming together in a place at a particular time and what unfolds there rather than some inherent aspect of what is coming out of the speakers.