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Originally Posted by evollove

Don't take your clothes off and not fuck me. I looked over the preface and didn't see anything. I'm really curious what you mean.

its actually not the intro but chapter 1 (p.27). he's been talking about the influence of venues in the kind of music created.

then he talks about the walkman/the headphone. he sez:

"You, and only you, an audience of one, can hear a million tiny details, even with the compression that MP3 technology adds to recorgings. YOu can hear the singer's breath intake, their fingers on a guitar string. That said, extreme and sudden dynamic changes can be painful on a personal music player. As with dance music one hundred years ago, it's better to write music that maintains a relatively constant volume for this tiny venue. Dynamically static but with lots of details: that's the directive here"

then he adds:

"If there has been a compositional response to MP3s and the era of private listening I have yet to hear it. One would expect music that is essentially a soothing flood of ambient moods as a way to relax and decompress, or maybe dense and complex compositions that reward repeated playing and attentive listening, maybe intimate or rudely erotic vocals that would be inappropriate to blast in public that you could enjoy privately. If any of this is happening, I am unaware of it."

WHAT?????? is he trolling? he has to be trolling.

first of all-- wasn't his first band produced by brian eno??? has he never heard of him and the DELUGE of ambient music that came after? i mean, genre upon genre of ambient/chill/etc. fucks sakes. under what rock is that man living? or is he trolling eno? he must be-- they probably parted ways badly.

as for the dense complex compositions that reward repeated playing + attentive listening: don't get me started! someone needs to mail him one of those wire tapper CDs.

same with "rudely erotic vocals"-- he probably slept though the whole tipper gore debacle of ancient times. make him lissen to peaches. though i think of her more as dance music than headphone shit.