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PiPoe posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago
“analog information is continuous, while digital information is not.” an excerpt from the following article from Columbia University on Music and Computers – I found this quite interesting.
http://sites.music.columbia.edu/cmc/MusicAndComputers/chapter2/02_02.php
The Giza Forum (Legacy)
Closed Archive of The Old Forum
Analogue = human; Digital = transhuman (or anti-human)
Analogue = infinite; Digital = finite
Analogue has no number base; Digital is base-two (on or off)
I could go on and on, but you get the idea. I sent a rant to one of my dear University friends who is an audiophile, but got no response. I think I overloaded him! Part of it went like this:
“…Humans (analogue) sing into a microphone (analogue) and play their instruments into mixer and amplifier (analogue) and then the analogue data goes thru an ADC (analogue-to-digital converter) where it slices up phonemes and picks out data points that can be stored on digital media. We then stick that digital media into our digital stereos (or computers) where the DAC chip (digital-to-analogue converter) reassembles those slices back into pseudo-analogue in a way that some Silicon Valley nerd determined will “sound the same” as when it was originally created by humans in analogue! For ______ Sake (profanity removed for JPF sake), what’s wrong with that picture?”
I really like the sound of that – “ . . . digital can be hacked and analogue cannot . . . “
and that led me to ‘tonal colour’ or timbre – quite interesting (this article breaks out the different timbre employed during the different music eras.
https://helsinginkaupunginorkesteri.fi/en/tonal-colour
I can close my eyes at anytime and clearly hear the crackling of the vinyl record, it’s warmth ~ which enveloped the whole room as if a cotton candy mist blanket had fallen over everything, and all this imagery just from recalling a childhood memory. This plush sound was almost or very similar to the burning wood in a fireplace, the same quality in form, it’s dance was undulating like the dance of a flame. My father would play Bach and neither the record-player/turntable nor the speakers were the supposed ‘audiophile’ quality costing a fortune, as we were never wealthy, but never the less i distinctly remember with definitive clarity the breadth and depth – richness of that experience. Thank you for your reminder, and although a fear inside me grows not wanting to loose such experiences, i wonder what i can do other than purchasing a record player and some vinyl records to keep such wonderful machinery from being lost forever. I wonder if my love for film photographs is also the same analogous type; it must be, no? I always admired the fact that I could find a negative from almost a half century ago, hold it up to a light source such as the sun and still see the image imprinted there. It is shame that all my digital photographs of my son will not have the same accessibility.
Thank you . . .
I you are so right, i haven’t experienced those simple pleasures myself in so long, right now it seems like several lifetimes ago, thank you for the reminder. I really need to find some film although i do not know where i can get Kodak Ektachrome at this point in time or if they even make it anymore. I still have my 35mm film cameras and right now it seems like the perfect time to feel them out once again.
Could a symbol (or archetype) in a complex form (encompassing at least 3 dimensions) be composed of natural senses (i.e. touch, smell, sight, taste, hearing) of which each causes an ‘affect’?
This is an interesting article on the sense and adds more –
https://www.livescience.com/60752-human-senses.html
https://www.ancient-symbols.com/symbol-list
Me too, i wholeheartedly agree . . .